... to define and limit where these cloaks can and can not be used. Just think of the mischief that can be done with that gadget ! Crime. And other stuff.
You should note that i did not state having an education is the only criteria to entitle someone to propose regulations in a field.
People are free to get degrees, and many people hold many degrees in different areas. This does not suddenly make them people with visionary minds or trend setters, neither limited provess in any defined area can do that. Otherwise we would have hundreds of thousands of geniuses and 'breakthrough' people since we have hordes of people with degrees and/or limited provess in particular area(s) working in big trend setting companies like google, microsoft, sun and so on.
To propose such broad-reaching practices, one should be required to be a major figure in that field.
If a coalition of people that consists of people founding and directing google, microsoft, sun, cisco, icann and any similar phenomenon have done this proposition, this would be fairly inobjectionable. but alas it is not.
It is not neccessary to read any article to visualize what a mess it would lead to when such a system is proposed, as there are already live examples of such 'systems & control' problems around the world. It is not an engineering or infrastructure matter in fact, it is a systems issue and considering those examples, traffic filtering might be more difficult than i imagine to be, and i really might be clueless right now.
Family filters, some isps filtering some stuff, cisco's or some other it firm's hardware and software would be incomparable to the procedural mess we would get into if such nonsense would get acceptance. It is a matter of semi arbitrarily ordainable procedures by anyone that has any power whatsoever on the net or sells any product, and given the issues that arise in such interaction systems its result would be mind boggling. It is not a matter of engineering in fact, it is a matter of systems.
A good example is international law, and another is EU practices and directives. They have become more complex than the member states' legal complexities combined, and you have to add member states' legal complexities on top of that, even if you are selling plain eggs from some country to another, even experts on EU trade internals have difficulty with sorting things out with a glitch.
Remember we are talking about the result that would happen if ALL of the net jumps in such foolhardy practices.
And surprisingly what it would lead to would be simplification and lifting of such rules, limits, procedures and barriers, just like EU is trying to practice in its bulky proceedings between the member states.
I would like to remind you that we already have an system that is running very well on the net, and we already have almost no limitations and problematic procedures. And this has given way for internet to be what it is today, something global and almost above the states in the world.
In another respect, from an engineering approach ; "If it aint broke, dont fix it"
Just another persona totally irrelevant to internet and speaks on things he has no clue about.
Can you imagine what would happen if such things, filtering, seperate pricing, access procedures etc should be done, with hundreds of thousands sites erected each day, maybe 20 thousand and more isps active around the world, hordes of networks, satellite and telecom operators, datacenters ?
The result would be an INFINITE and ever increasing number of protocols, prices, agreements, disagreements, filters, etc and stuff !!!
How much cpu power would the operators need to determine what goes to where and what goes not if such mess was introduced ? Google would have to erect a new server farm to process 'filters', and it would be one that is comparable to the one it uses for search processing.
'Pay for bandwith' my arse. The profits from bandwidth would go to maintaining endless server farms all around the world to process access limitations.
I repeat : people should not be allowed to propose laws in an area they have no expertise, training or experience in.
A few more steps, and they will be on the dark side...
This is a total joke. Almost ALL of the legislations that are proposed or pass the U.S. congress has something to do with 'copyright'. This is a total outrage. It seems like U.S. consists of nothing but copyright olders and the serfs who has to pay for their 'copy' 'rights'.
Real unique visitor numbers are always much higher than IPs, or anything that the stats programs comment as 'Unique Visitors'.
Stats program rely upon ips, browsers, other identifiable factors to asses what traffic is 'viewed'.
This is a thing of yesterday. Today there is much 'privacy' and 'security' hype going on, networks are showing the users to the remote server as they are a single user, people in their homes use privacy blocking stuff to prevent many identifying info about the client pc being submitted to the remote server that holds the site visited.
Thus, it is natural that many actual visitor traffic is now being interpreted as 'not viewed' traffic. But how much of it, what is the ratio ? That totally depends on the visitor spectrum of the site, hardware and measures they use in their own desktops and so on.
In internet, profit maximization is about maximizing sales numbers. Because internet is the most advanced, boundless, effortless and most automated distribution/sales medium ever created. You can sell downloadable stuff to millions of people through a single site in a day, with ridiculous operating costs for you in comparison to operating a ring of merchandise stores all over the nation. And in addition, the product is easily reproducable - you just provide 1-2 versions of the download in 5-10 mb sizes and thats it - there is no cd copying, no labeling, no extra stuff. There is even no tech support afterwards if you are selling songs !
This is a place where excessive profits can neither be justified nor accepted by the public by force or other means.
Thus, considering both advantages and 'must do's of the internet, i propose that profit maximization can only be practiced by staggering amount of sales in respect to music downloads, or similar products.
Those guys actually did erect one of the smallest kind of heads in the island.
As for the pyramids, well, they might have started with smallest of possible pyramids, however, the economic power that is neccessary to build yet one greatest pyramid is a major work for entire middle east, leave aside a phletora of pyramids with different sizes that are built in a 1000 year period.
Actually, in the aggregate, they DO act as mindless drones. That's what the invisible hand is all about.
I'm not even sure what that was supposed to mean. I would just point out that listening to the marketing people has worked out pretty well for Bill Gates and friends.
au contraire, that lead to the creation of their most serious competitor in an otherwise monopolized market ; open source operating systems.
Profit Maximization and its importance is taught in econ classes, and the sales crowd give it a rather exagerrated importance, but the fact that the 'market' is in fact people which have a tendency to behave according to their own choosing and not as mindless drones of the 'invisible hand' is not.
They always go for getting the maximum profit achievable with a given or minimum quantity of sales. The very thought at the end does not deliver what they want to get indeed :
If you make an easily obtainable/copyable product overpriced, you pump up piracy, or at the least unwillingness to buy your products in the target crowd.
How many of us would think 'well, its just nothing, let me get 5-10 songs tonight' if the price per song was $5 or $10 ? or would any of us get a 'cheaper' song because the song we wanted was priced much higher ? is it that simple that we are going to get the 'best obtainable' from the songs provided ? a sheer stupidity scratch for the marketing crowd ? yes .
Not only the 'profit maximizing' concept actually hampers the profits, but it also shatters market reach and market control - which is something priceless in most respects. Sell a song for just $0.10, and youll get hordes of people buying songs because 'its just nothing' in price - youll become a net standard.
For anyone that might be interested, Aces Of Pacific is the second in a series of Simulations from Dynamix, an old sierra subsidiary.
Game came right after Red Baron, and its unprecedented success. Now speaking of which, this game also does an unparalelled job of taking the player to WWI atmosphere, it is a must-have for anyone who have played at least a computer game.
Back in 92-93, Aces of pacific came, which was an implementation of the principles invented in red baron (immersive career concept, a high number of repetitive but very varied missions, timeline that relates directly to the actual events etc) to the ww2 pacific. Graphics were good then, even in today's standards it is still playable, beautiful vector graphics.
Later came Aces over Europe - reasonably an europe backgrounded version. Which was made a little bit more realistic in flight dynamics and war realities, but lost nothing from the 'will get you into the atmosphere' concept.
Last in series would be Aces Of the Deep, a still unmatched ww2 sub sim that is way too successful in implementing ww2 german sumbariner life. Being a sub sim, it is much different than the previous 2 titles though.
All three games would be obtainable in bundles from sierra, or if they are in abandonware status they could be obtained from sites that serve abandonware.
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Take Aces of pacific for example - it did a splendid job of taking the player into the atmosphere with reasonable missions that were repetitive but realistic.
The theories proposed to explain building of the great pyramid each hang in balance in one respect or another anyway.
It is highly possible that during the proposed period the pyramids are built, most of the middle east should do nothing but produce pyramid byproducts - no wars, no migrations, no other stuff, just production - to have pyramids meet that schedule.
And considering middle east was then the center of civilized world, and the place with most of the chaos and mayhem going on, well it seems just odd...
Firefox is not a product that belongs to google - it is a community creation. Whereas ie is something that microsoft produces for its own profit, and forces upon the pc users with all the operation systems that it sells.
In short, defaulting the search to google is firefox community's own choosing, and people are free to get or not to get firefox according to their own whim, whereas defaulting the search to msn is microsoft's own scheme which is clearly something that is thought of to get people who are just starting out with pc's, newbies to using msn search.
indeed an act of monopoly, and microsoft should be sweating its ass over it in europe, i guarantee you.
That might, or might not be so. It is very early to tell for sure yet.
It is on the other hand pretty logical that the party making the discovery would be trying to use the discovery's hype/the publishing rights as far as they could. Which is something that has happened in many earlier discoveries.
What i am against is that the science crowd is TOO hasty in 'disproving' something that is proposed anew, and with WORDS only. People talking out of their offices in colleges. This is no science.
Skepticism should not be used as a 'ready made philosphy to reject anything that is anew without making any experiment or confirmation'.
That very quote from sagan does not incorporate the 'timing' of the lauging into the equation, you see.
We are at the stage that the extreme conservatism of the science crowd is active - the stage that they shun, demean, frown and snob upon something that is just discovered or proposed.
The laughing is something that should be done in proper time - WHEN and IF something that pops up to be a fraud.
The science crowd is so that they act against anything that is new, BEFORE and without getting to the field personally to verify the truth or lies. This is because of modern science's scholastic roots dating from the churches of 1200s, when first diciplines of science were incorporated to the establishment.
Science can not be done without EVER leaving the office in the campus. Every now and then people should take to the field.
The irony is that, the same people who are shunning and chanting against this new discovery will be the ones that will praise it the most later on, if the discovery is confirmed real.
Many people were labeled as 'nutjobs' over the course of history, and now their theories are being taught in college courses. Solid proof is important. The below, which is very easy to verify is solid proof that there is a man-made structure at any place, in archeological respect :
"Earlier research on the hill, known as Visocica, found that it has perfectly shaped, 45-degree slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, and a flat top. Under layers of dirt, workers discovered a paved entrance plateau, entrances to tunnels and large stone blocks."
With the hype going on around the 'language', clients are requesting entire features that were otherwise done with local php/mysql operations be done with ajax. work order systems, online computer gaming bracketing systems for example are 2 examples that i have to deal with now. They do not want 'just simple form validation', they want things done entirely in ajax.
And it is a problem to convey the realities, advantages and disadvantages of ajax to them for the projects at hand, because ajax is the 'new thing' and 'it is good' for many of them.
You are taking javascript-remote scripting load lightly i think :
Yes, any desktop pc can compile any web page, and even heavily javascript loaded pages relatively easily under normal circumstances. But people that browse the web never open a single firefox/ie window and browse the web on the client pc - they run media players, office programs, sometimes small games (the office crowd, as the least example), 1 or 2 instant messengers, an ever open mail client, in general.
The combined effect of all these running at the same time, given any application has its own bugs and take on the client pc, occasionally even leads to lockups for the client pc. Which is something i experience in person when i visit heavily java loaded or ajax pages, yes, even the gmail or adwords sometimes can cause such problems.
Youll say, and i agree that it is illogical to run such phletora of things at a time, but this is not a choice left to us developers. People have, and will do use their pcs like that - it is in the nature of people.
In these respects, we developers are on the other side of the double edged sword - we HAVE to satisfy our clients, and at the same time we HAVE to ensure that the client's content is 100% delivered to the visitor pc.
This is why i refrain from using any client side stuff in the code as far as i can avoid.
I'd known this would happen sooner or later, and it did.
I am going to devise a tournament system in Ajax for a client of one of my contractors.
I do not get why the client is too enthusiastic about this new 'collection of scripting languages'. All in all, his site wont be getting any considerable number of users at a given time for justifying the delegation of the server load to client pcs', there is nothing s/he cannot have done with the server side applications, via PHP, MySQL etc, but the client is still very interested in having that way.
The fact that ActiveX is already used to plant rootkits in home pcs, the load, even if it is a small one, that happens while compiling ajax pages in the visitor pc and the way it occasionally leads to lock-ups in client pc because clients often have 5-6 windows and applications active at the same time, and the idea of scaling down and down the applet further to be fit into operation windows that might get smaller with the number of applications open in a client pc are stuff that can not be taken lightly...
I admit that i wonder to undertake such a mid-sized project for testing out and getting accustomed to this new much-hyped technique however. Its good to know, even if you do oppose the disadvantages it brings.
But my belief still is that, in 1-1.5 years time, many system adminstrators, users, anti-virus, security and privacy programs will be barring or filtering out many functions that comes with the Ajax combination, or allow omly prominent sites like gmail to run in the client pc, due to security concerns. The fact that you can get procedures performed in the remote pc is already an open door to many malicious activity, and the 'black' crowd i guess wouldnt wait long to jump in to the new ride to spread a phletora of malicious stuff. So shortly, best way for many security software, and adminstrators would be to directly filter ajax content coming out from non-prominent sites, ie small sites, to make sure no harm is done on the clients' pc.
Taking into account the fact that the main advantage of ajax is the delegation of the server load to the client pc - which is something big guys sorely need, but almost maybe 80% of the sites on the internet does not -, and combining it with the possibility of being filtered/barred by the security software/adminstrators as not being a 'big guy', takes me into the conclusion that Ajax is a 'big boys'' tool.
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... to define and limit where these cloaks can and can not be used. Just think of the mischief that can be done with that gadget ! Crime. And other stuff.
You should note that i did not state having an education is the only criteria to entitle someone to propose regulations in a field.
People are free to get degrees, and many people hold many degrees in different areas. This does not suddenly make them people with visionary minds or trend setters, neither limited provess in any defined area can do that. Otherwise we would have hundreds of thousands of geniuses and 'breakthrough' people since we have hordes of people with degrees and/or limited provess in particular area(s) working in big trend setting companies like google, microsoft, sun and so on.
To propose such broad-reaching practices, one should be required to be a major figure in that field.
If a coalition of people that consists of people founding and directing google, microsoft, sun, cisco, icann and any similar phenomenon have done this proposition, this would be fairly inobjectionable. but alas it is not.
It is not neccessary to read any article to visualize what a mess it would lead to when such a system is proposed, as there are already live examples of such 'systems & control' problems around the world. It is not an engineering or infrastructure matter in fact, it is a systems issue and considering those examples, traffic filtering might be more difficult than i imagine to be, and i really might be clueless right now.
Family filters, some isps filtering some stuff, cisco's or some other it firm's hardware and software would be incomparable to the procedural mess we would get into if such nonsense would get acceptance. It is a matter of semi arbitrarily ordainable procedures by anyone that has any power whatsoever on the net or sells any product, and given the issues that arise in such interaction systems its result would be mind boggling. It is not a matter of engineering in fact, it is a matter of systems.
A good example is international law, and another is EU practices and directives. They have become more complex than the member states' legal complexities combined, and you have to add member states' legal complexities on top of that, even if you are selling plain eggs from some country to another, even experts on EU trade internals have difficulty with sorting things out with a glitch.
Remember we are talking about the result that would happen if ALL of the net jumps in such foolhardy practices.
And surprisingly what it would lead to would be simplification and lifting of such rules, limits, procedures and barriers, just like EU is trying to practice in its bulky proceedings between the member states.
I would like to remind you that we already have an system that is running very well on the net, and we already have almost no limitations and problematic procedures. And this has given way for internet to be what it is today, something global and almost above the states in the world.
In another respect, from an engineering approach ; "If it aint broke, dont fix it"
Just another persona totally irrelevant to internet and speaks on things he has no clue about.
Can you imagine what would happen if such things, filtering, seperate pricing, access procedures etc should be done, with hundreds of thousands sites erected each day, maybe 20 thousand and more isps active around the world, hordes of networks, satellite and telecom operators, datacenters ?
The result would be an INFINITE and ever increasing number of protocols, prices, agreements, disagreements, filters, etc and stuff !!!
How much cpu power would the operators need to determine what goes to where and what goes not if such mess was introduced ? Google would have to erect a new server farm to process 'filters', and it would be one that is comparable to the one it uses for search processing.
'Pay for bandwith' my arse. The profits from bandwidth would go to maintaining endless server farms all around the world to process access limitations.
I repeat : people should not be allowed to propose laws in an area they have no expertise, training or experience in.
A few more steps, and they will be on the dark side ...
This is a total joke. Almost ALL of the legislations that are proposed or pass the U.S. congress has something to do with 'copyright'. This is a total outrage. It seems like U.S. consists of nothing but copyright olders and the serfs who has to pay for their 'copy' 'rights'.
Somebody has to stop this.
Real unique visitor numbers are always much higher than IPs, or anything that the stats programs comment as 'Unique Visitors'.
Stats program rely upon ips, browsers, other identifiable factors to asses what traffic is 'viewed'.
This is a thing of yesterday. Today there is much 'privacy' and 'security' hype going on, networks are showing the users to the remote server as they are a single user, people in their homes use privacy blocking stuff to prevent many identifying info about the client pc being submitted to the remote server that holds the site visited.
Thus, it is natural that many actual visitor traffic is now being interpreted as 'not viewed' traffic. But how much of it, what is the ratio ? That totally depends on the visitor spectrum of the site, hardware and measures they use in their own desktops and so on.
Well let me clear what im meaning a little :
In internet, profit maximization is about maximizing sales numbers. Because internet is the most advanced, boundless, effortless and most automated distribution/sales medium ever created. You can sell downloadable stuff to millions of people through a single site in a day, with ridiculous operating costs for you in comparison to operating a ring of merchandise stores all over the nation. And in addition, the product is easily reproducable - you just provide 1-2 versions of the download in 5-10 mb sizes and thats it - there is no cd copying, no labeling, no extra stuff. There is even no tech support afterwards if you are selling songs !
This is a place where excessive profits can neither be justified nor accepted by the public by force or other means.
Thus, considering both advantages and 'must do's of the internet, i propose that profit maximization can only be practiced by staggering amount of sales in respect to music downloads, or similar products.
Those guys actually did erect one of the smallest kind of heads in the island.
As for the pyramids, well, they might have started with smallest of possible pyramids, however, the economic power that is neccessary to build yet one greatest pyramid is a major work for entire middle east, leave aside a phletora of pyramids with different sizes that are built in a 1000 year period.
Actually, in the aggregate, they DO act as mindless drones. That's what the invisible hand is all about.
I'm not even sure what that was supposed to mean. I would just point out that listening to the marketing people has worked out pretty well for Bill Gates and friends.
au contraire, that lead to the creation of their most serious competitor in an otherwise monopolized market ; open source operating systems.
- Mandatory helmets and helmet cams to ensure that no one lends a copyrighted cd to his/her friend
- Mandatory mic implants to ensure that noone murmurs a copyrighted song while going to work and back
- Mandatory in-house representatives to ensure copyrighted lullabies are not sung to babies
- Mandatory arse cams to ensure that noone does sharing while 'online shitting'
...internet. They should have shown more respect for the hairies. We owe the computer/internet revolution to hairy guys all over the world.
And they got the majority ~30% by bullying, beating the opposition, literally. Just like julius caesar had his goons do back in the 40 BCs.
... maximize profits.
Profit Maximization and its importance is taught in econ classes, and the sales crowd give it a rather exagerrated importance, but the fact that the 'market' is in fact people which have a tendency to behave according to their own choosing and not as mindless drones of the 'invisible hand' is not.
They always go for getting the maximum profit achievable with a given or minimum quantity of sales. The very thought at the end does not deliver what they want to get indeed :
If you make an easily obtainable/copyable product overpriced, you pump up piracy, or at the least unwillingness to buy your products in the target crowd.
How many of us would think 'well, its just nothing, let me get 5-10 songs tonight' if the price per song was $5 or $10 ? or would any of us get a 'cheaper' song because the song we wanted was priced much higher ? is it that simple that we are going to get the 'best obtainable' from the songs provided ? a sheer stupidity scratch for the marketing crowd ? yes .
Not only the 'profit maximizing' concept actually hampers the profits, but it also shatters market reach and market control - which is something priceless in most respects. Sell a song for just $0.10, and youll get hordes of people buying songs because 'its just nothing' in price - youll become a net standard.
Sell them for $5, and youll get piracy.
For anyone that might be interested, Aces Of Pacific is the second in a series of Simulations from Dynamix, an old sierra subsidiary.
Game came right after Red Baron, and its unprecedented success. Now speaking of which, this game also does an unparalelled job of taking the player to WWI atmosphere, it is a must-have for anyone who have played at least a computer game.
Back in 92-93, Aces of pacific came, which was an implementation of the principles invented in red baron (immersive career concept, a high number of repetitive but very varied missions, timeline that relates directly to the actual events etc) to the ww2 pacific. Graphics were good then, even in today's standards it is still playable, beautiful vector graphics.
Later came Aces over Europe - reasonably an europe backgrounded version. Which was made a little bit more realistic in flight dynamics and war realities, but lost nothing from the 'will get you into the atmosphere' concept.
Last in series would be Aces Of the Deep, a still unmatched ww2 sub sim that is way too successful in implementing ww2 german sumbariner life. Being a sub sim, it is much different than the previous 2 titles though.
All three games would be obtainable in bundles from sierra, or if they are in abandonware status they could be obtained from sites that serve abandonware.
Take Aces of pacific for example - it did a splendid job of taking the player into the atmosphere with reasonable missions that were repetitive but realistic.
The theories proposed to explain building of the great pyramid each hang in balance in one respect or another anyway.
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It is highly possible that during the proposed period the pyramids are built, most of the middle east should do nothing but produce pyramid byproducts - no wars, no migrations, no other stuff, just production - to have pyramids meet that schedule.
And considering middle east was then the center of civilized world, and the place with most of the chaos and mayhem going on, well it seems just odd
It happens with a 'typo' of course.
Firefox is not a product that belongs to google - it is a community creation. Whereas ie is something that microsoft produces for its own profit, and forces upon the pc users with all the operation systems that it sells.
In short, defaulting the search to google is firefox community's own choosing, and people are free to get or not to get firefox according to their own whim, whereas defaulting the search to msn is microsoft's own scheme which is clearly something that is thought of to get people who are just starting out with pc's, newbies to using msn search.
indeed an act of monopoly, and microsoft should be sweating its ass over it in europe, i guarantee you.
That might, or might not be so. It is very early to tell for sure yet.
It is on the other hand pretty logical that the party making the discovery would be trying to use the discovery's hype/the publishing rights as far as they could. Which is something that has happened in many earlier discoveries.
What i am against is that the science crowd is TOO hasty in 'disproving' something that is proposed anew, and with WORDS only. People talking out of their offices in colleges. This is no science.
Skepticism should not be used as a 'ready made philosphy to reject anything that is anew without making any experiment or confirmation'.
That very quote from sagan does not incorporate the 'timing' of the lauging into the equation, you see.
We are at the stage that the extreme conservatism of the science crowd is active - the stage that they shun, demean, frown and snob upon something that is just discovered or proposed.
The laughing is something that should be done in proper time - WHEN and IF something that pops up to be a fraud.
The science crowd is so that they act against anything that is new, BEFORE and without getting to the field personally to verify the truth or lies. This is because of modern science's scholastic roots dating from the churches of 1200s, when first diciplines of science were incorporated to the establishment.
Science can not be done without EVER leaving the office in the campus. Every now and then people should take to the field.
The irony is that, the same people who are shunning and chanting against this new discovery will be the ones that will praise it the most later on, if the discovery is confirmed real.
Many people were labeled as 'nutjobs' over the course of history, and now their theories are being taught in college courses. Solid proof is important. The below, which is very easy to verify is solid proof that there is a man-made structure at any place, in archeological respect : "Earlier research on the hill, known as Visocica, found that it has perfectly shaped, 45-degree slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, and a flat top. Under layers of dirt, workers discovered a paved entrance plateau, entrances to tunnels and large stone blocks."
With the hype going on around the 'language', clients are requesting entire features that were otherwise done with local php/mysql operations be done with ajax. work order systems, online computer gaming bracketing systems for example are 2 examples that i have to deal with now. They do not want 'just simple form validation', they want things done entirely in ajax.
And it is a problem to convey the realities, advantages and disadvantages of ajax to them for the projects at hand, because ajax is the 'new thing' and 'it is good' for many of them.
You are taking javascript-remote scripting load lightly i think :
Yes, any desktop pc can compile any web page, and even heavily javascript loaded pages relatively easily under normal circumstances. But people that browse the web never open a single firefox/ie window and browse the web on the client pc - they run media players, office programs, sometimes small games (the office crowd, as the least example), 1 or 2 instant messengers, an ever open mail client, in general.
The combined effect of all these running at the same time, given any application has its own bugs and take on the client pc, occasionally even leads to lockups for the client pc. Which is something i experience in person when i visit heavily java loaded or ajax pages, yes, even the gmail or adwords sometimes can cause such problems.
Youll say, and i agree that it is illogical to run such phletora of things at a time, but this is not a choice left to us developers. People have, and will do use their pcs like that - it is in the nature of people.
In these respects, we developers are on the other side of the double edged sword - we HAVE to satisfy our clients, and at the same time we HAVE to ensure that the client's content is 100% delivered to the visitor pc.
This is why i refrain from using any client side stuff in the code as far as i can avoid.
Responsibility for holding the net's grounds lies now in u.s. citizens. You people should blow the ears off your senators.
I'd known this would happen sooner or later, and it did.
...
I am going to devise a tournament system in Ajax for a client of one of my contractors.
I do not get why the client is too enthusiastic about this new 'collection of scripting languages'. All in all, his site wont be getting any considerable number of users at a given time for justifying the delegation of the server load to client pcs', there is nothing s/he cannot have done with the server side applications, via PHP, MySQL etc, but the client is still very interested in having that way.
The fact that ActiveX is already used to plant rootkits in home pcs, the load, even if it is a small one, that happens while compiling ajax pages in the visitor pc and the way it occasionally leads to lock-ups in client pc because clients often have 5-6 windows and applications active at the same time, and the idea of scaling down and down the applet further to be fit into operation windows that might get smaller with the number of applications open in a client pc are stuff that can not be taken lightly
I admit that i wonder to undertake such a mid-sized project for testing out and getting accustomed to this new much-hyped technique however. Its good to know, even if you do oppose the disadvantages it brings.
But my belief still is that, in 1-1.5 years time, many system adminstrators, users, anti-virus, security and privacy programs will be barring or filtering out many functions that comes with the Ajax combination, or allow omly prominent sites like gmail to run in the client pc, due to security concerns. The fact that you can get procedures performed in the remote pc is already an open door to many malicious activity, and the 'black' crowd i guess wouldnt wait long to jump in to the new ride to spread a phletora of malicious stuff. So shortly, best way for many security software, and adminstrators would be to directly filter ajax content coming out from non-prominent sites, ie small sites, to make sure no harm is done on the clients' pc.
Taking into account the fact that the main advantage of ajax is the delegation of the server load to the client pc - which is something big guys sorely need, but almost maybe 80% of the sites on the internet does not -, and combining it with the possibility of being filtered/barred by the security software/adminstrators as not being a 'big guy', takes me into the conclusion that Ajax is a 'big boys'' tool.
Huh ? what if something like this happens ? a little 'transistor' or 'capacitor' breaks somewhere and ?
Will i just 'pop' while playing in the middle of my living room at 21.30 with a cup of tea in the holder ?
Oh man. games have become already much tiring to play. I cant handle extra input from the game from now on. maybe im older now.
"Concentrate" in order to drive ? we already do that while driving to work. Whats next ? Wearing gloves while cleaning in Sims 2 ?