I seriously doubt that Microsoft will put that into the default configuration of IE11 or whatever version this function gets delivered in, it would reduce their ability to sell coding toolkits for the 3D function to the market.
No, whenever this is seen as a 'good' thing by the big browsers (IE, Safari, FF) the default will be to allow this junk, and most of the 'normal' people who use the inter-tubes dont know how to download a FireFox extension, much less probe the depths of Internet explorer's preferences panel to find the right knob.
As responsible web jockeys the SlashDot crowd should probably strongly discourage this development, although we will likely be outflanked by the zeal of advertisers to monetize the intar-web.
Havent you heard? The Browser is the OS now. This way the large vertically integrated software companies can deliver their entire panoply of junk software to us through the browser and we get to pay a monthly priviledge^H^H^H^H subscription for access.
Not sure how bad this is for the OSS movement however, creating the ever more complex rich user-interface environments is not the stuff of one guy in his mother's closet writing code - it takes real artists, human-interface studies, and more, to make the stuff work and not look either amateurish (and loose user base) or impossible to use (and lose user base).
Cinge? No flinch when that stupid monkey from the banner add starts throwing virtual 3D poop at you.
Does anything really think that if every browser out there had this capability the advertisers wont stuff this into their adds like popups are used now?
Even more bandwidth draining marketing weenie tools to make websites 'interactive'! Eleventy!
I'm highly confident that soon we will see a proliferation of meaningless uses of this technology to further anger the denizens of FaceBook (you broke my homepage) and turn every formerly useful information site into an impossible to navigate hash.
Clean web page design with usability studies and simplistic HTML+CSS works very well, just like what you're looking at here on Slashdot - do you really think that the only way to make Slashdot better would be to make articles "jump up" on mouseover like some insane 1950s B-grade 3-D movie extravaganza?
Good idea. First, get rid of your computer, that will save on the coal used to power it, but why stop there, get rid of your car, house and food-intake too.
You know they were not wrong on many of the assumptions, but the single biggest error was a complete lack of imagination or trust in Mans ability to invent a way out of the hole. I'm personally glad that most people either didn't know of the theory, or simply ignored it. Following their model leads to uni-bomber type solutions.
In the mean time Exxon and MonSanto have been busy finding answers that support my rapacious lifestyle of gluttony and hedonsim. Go team.
I wonder why the chaos theory mavens haven't jumped all over the "climate scientists" yet? It used to be all the rage to argue that computer models were highly limited in their usefulness. Now that the NWS is able to get 3-day forecasts almost always right, it seems like computer climate models 'should' be right. But then we forget both the fairly common errors (365 days a year, and you cant have 60% rain, it either does or it doesnt!).
The only way the weather predictions have been able to reach the reliability that we have today is through trial-and-error simulation and comparison against actual conditions. This occurred over at least a century (although advancing most quickly in the modern era with high-performance computing), and even today is really only sufficiently accurate for temperature,
Climate is such a long term thing that even if the models predict a yearly average, it will take hundreds or thousands of years before the climate models meet a true scientific test (hypothesize, experiment, verify, repeat). It seems to me to be a poor idea to rely on suspect data for such a globe spanning effect, political, economic and scientific.
The rush to 'fix' seems like a hasty panic in the face of a shadow on a wall, we dont know the size of what's producing the shadow, only that its there. It does seem prudent however to work to cut emissions in general, regardless of carbon content.
You are by nature a risk taker, most people (regardless of nationality) are not. Evolution is the likely culprit. The curious lemur gets eaten by the predators after-all.
Most people in service industries are there because they are not self-directed, and that covers everything including their wages. If they cannot be motivated enough to seek out interesting employment for themselves and gain the benefits of higher education, how do you expect them to negotiate a contract?
IT used to be a sector that only admitted the "best of the best" because technology was so incredibly arcane that it self-selected for the risk takers - those willing to be "nerds" and "geeks". Assuming thats no longer the case, more of the average population will join the IT work force and bring with them the 'need' to have someone else take care of them - hence unions.
I have no idea how one fights this tendency successfully - the statistics are against you - there will always be a standard deviation curve plot of risk-taking and self-sufficiency.
If I worked for Microsoft and was evil (but then I've just repeated myself) - I'd stealthily create a front company to sell OEM licenses of XP long after its officially not available and thereby monitize the grey market, some companies have been caught doing this in the past and its not usually a FTC violation.
Or I just had a worse thought... what if this is a massive New Coke/Old Coke scam?
Windows XP "Classic" anyone?.... ugh, now that I think of it its exactly like New Coke - a supposed marketing 'hit' that gets rave reviews in focus groups, but utterly fails on the street...
Wait wait wait - it was not Obama that 'investigated' Joe. It stinks, but there's never been a reputable allegation that Obama directed the apparatchiks in Ohio to abuse privacy rights. They did it on their own accord because they didnt like his message.
Now we've reached a point in politics where "he did it first" is a reasonable excuse for degrading our civil liberties?
Its NEVER appropriate for the State (capital S) to exercise its power on behalf of any particular political opinion.
First lets point out that the INS system is fatally flawed - it gives applicants no fair process, and that is fundamentally against the principles of the US Constitution, but since the system is applied to non-citizens, there is no valid constituency to object to this behavior.
Second, the INS is only the INS because the entirety of the US Government wants it that way, particularly include Congress and the Senate. Dont BS your way into delusion that the Bush 43 administration is solely responsible for the INS treating immigrants like crap. As a nation we've treated lots of people that way - my grandparents came through Ellis Island and passed the "your white and disease free" test. Many other failed and took a sailing voyage back to their origin.
Finally, and I'll probably take a karma hit here from the "progressive" moderation block, the author's failure to "stand up" is a straw-man argument. Its not up to non-citizens to object to our government's actions. By his own admission he was applying for residency. We as a nation have a right to ask potential citizens to be 'good' citizens. While controversial in many cases, we do refuse citizenship to some based on their political standings that may be in direct conflict with the national consensus.
NOTE: I make no claim for or against the author's opinion about the wiretap program - this post _only_ addresses the immigration issue and how it pertains to his purported right to voice his opinion.
I would agree with and support any lawsuits against the INS that attack the idea of a faceless bureaucrat applying any political test on immigrants, since that leads to abuse of power. An open records policy, strongly enforced (FOIA) and a valid (read methodical) application & approval process is long overdue for our ailing immigration system.
Amen. XP is the primary OS for millions (Billions?) and does everything that most of these millions want. The problem stems from Microsoft being a public company, the shareholders expect (demand) something as fantasic as little Billy's first win with WIndows 3.1.
Time has passed, OS is no longer the core of innovation in computing science. Microsoft needs to learn this lesson before they end up like IBM of 1988, holding a bag of blisteringly expensive technology that fits the needs of a prior decade.
Then again, IBM is back, with an entirely new business model, and may eclipse Microsoft in stock valuation - as of Friday Microsoft had a cap of 170B, while IBM had a CAP of 110B and six times the Earnings per share as Microsoft.
It might not be a bad idea to think short-selling on MSFT in 6 months when they finally pull the trigger on XP and execute the "Peoples Front of Judea" plan.
Designs are expensive, but components are not. My PCB designs can support several different Bill-Of-Materials loads during manufacturing and when the boards are destined for industrial or military use we can use 'screened' parts which have been pre-selected and tested at high-temperature to ensure correct operation. Marginal parts at higher temps may be fine for consumer boxes (ie the ones on your desktop) but in a server box run 24-7-365 it-has-to-work-all-the-time may not be a good idea.
I've been fustrated with the exact scenario quizzed in the original topic, using Maxtor SATAII 500GB disks as a drop-zone for my DLT backup machine I've had the HDDs for less than a month and already 3 of 4 failed with bad sectors because they all sit in a PC case. I'm going to have to rig out the box with extra fans, and the hastle of pulling and replacing the disks is driving me crazy too so now I'm adding removable disk bays. Not as easy or as cheap as I had anticipated (labor costs mostly).
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I seriously doubt that Microsoft will put that into the default configuration of IE11 or whatever version this function gets delivered in, it would reduce their ability to sell coding toolkits for the 3D function to the market.
No, whenever this is seen as a 'good' thing by the big browsers (IE, Safari, FF) the default will be to allow this junk, and most of the 'normal' people who use the inter-tubes dont know how to download a FireFox extension, much less probe the depths of Internet explorer's preferences panel to find the right knob.
As responsible web jockeys the SlashDot crowd should probably strongly discourage this development, although we will likely be outflanked by the zeal of advertisers to monetize the intar-web.
Havent you heard? The Browser is the OS now. This way the large vertically integrated software companies can deliver their entire panoply of junk software to us through the browser and we get to pay a monthly priviledge^H^H^H^H subscription for access.
Not sure how bad this is for the OSS movement however, creating the ever more complex rich user-interface environments is not the stuff of one guy in his mother's closet writing code - it takes real artists, human-interface studies, and more, to make the stuff work and not look either amateurish (and loose user base) or impossible to use (and lose user base).
Cinge? No flinch when that stupid monkey from the banner add starts throwing virtual 3D poop at you.
Does anything really think that if every browser out there had this capability the advertisers wont stuff this into their adds like popups are used now?
Even more bandwidth draining marketing weenie tools to make websites 'interactive'! Eleventy!
I'm highly confident that soon we will see a proliferation of meaningless uses of this technology to further anger the denizens of FaceBook (you broke my homepage) and turn every formerly useful information site into an impossible to navigate hash.
Clean web page design with usability studies and simplistic HTML+CSS works very well, just like what you're looking at here on Slashdot - do you really think that the only way to make Slashdot better would be to make articles "jump up" on mouseover like some insane 1950s B-grade 3-D movie extravaganza?
Thanks Dr. Farnsworth.
Good idea. First, get rid of your computer, that will save on the coal used to power it, but why stop there, get rid of your car, house and food-intake too.
You know they were not wrong on many of the assumptions, but the single biggest error was a complete lack of imagination or trust in Mans ability to invent a way out of the hole. I'm personally glad that most people either didn't know of the theory, or simply ignored it. Following their model leads to uni-bomber type solutions.
In the mean time Exxon and MonSanto have been busy finding answers that support my rapacious lifestyle of gluttony and hedonsim. Go team.
I wonder why the chaos theory mavens haven't jumped all over the "climate scientists" yet? It used to be all the rage to argue that computer models were highly limited in their usefulness. Now that the NWS is able to get 3-day forecasts almost always right, it seems like computer climate models 'should' be right. But then we forget both the fairly common errors (365 days a year, and you cant have 60% rain, it either does or it doesnt!).
The only way the weather predictions have been able to reach the reliability that we have today is through trial-and-error simulation and comparison against actual conditions. This occurred over at least a century (although advancing most quickly in the modern era with high-performance computing), and even today is really only sufficiently accurate for temperature,
Climate is such a long term thing that even if the models predict a yearly average, it will take hundreds or thousands of years before the climate models meet a true scientific test (hypothesize, experiment, verify, repeat). It seems to me to be a poor idea to rely on suspect data for such a globe spanning effect, political, economic and scientific.
The rush to 'fix' seems like a hasty panic in the face of a shadow on a wall, we dont know the size of what's producing the shadow, only that its there. It does seem prudent however to work to cut emissions in general, regardless of carbon content.
Say goodbye to Kent McClure - say hello to "Migel Sanchez"
You are by nature a risk taker, most people (regardless of nationality) are not. Evolution is the likely culprit. The curious lemur gets eaten by the predators after-all.
Most people in service industries are there because they are not self-directed, and that covers everything including their wages. If they cannot be motivated enough to seek out interesting employment for themselves and gain the benefits of higher education, how do you expect them to negotiate a contract?
IT used to be a sector that only admitted the "best of the best" because technology was so incredibly arcane that it self-selected for the risk takers - those willing to be "nerds" and "geeks". Assuming thats no longer the case, more of the average population will join the IT work force and bring with them the 'need' to have someone else take care of them - hence unions.
I have no idea how one fights this tendency successfully - the statistics are against you - there will always be a standard deviation curve plot of risk-taking and self-sufficiency.
Cant say that I disagree.
If I worked for Microsoft and was evil (but then I've just repeated myself) - I'd stealthily create a front company to sell OEM licenses of XP long after its officially not available and thereby monitize the grey market, some companies have been caught doing this in the past and its not usually a FTC violation.
Or I just had a worse thought... what if this is a massive New Coke/Old Coke scam?
Windows XP "Classic" anyone? .... ugh, now that I think of it its exactly like New Coke - a supposed marketing 'hit' that gets rave reviews in focus groups, but utterly fails on the street...
Wait wait wait - it was not Obama that 'investigated' Joe. It stinks, but there's never been a reputable allegation that Obama directed the apparatchiks in Ohio to abuse privacy rights. They did it on their own accord because they didnt like his message.
Now we've reached a point in politics where "he did it first" is a reasonable excuse for degrading our civil liberties?
Its NEVER appropriate for the State (capital S) to exercise its power on behalf of any particular political opinion.
First lets point out that the INS system is fatally flawed - it gives applicants no fair process, and that is fundamentally against the principles of the US Constitution, but since the system is applied to non-citizens, there is no valid constituency to object to this behavior.
Second, the INS is only the INS because the entirety of the US Government wants it that way, particularly include Congress and the Senate. Dont BS your way into delusion that the Bush 43 administration is solely responsible for the INS treating immigrants like crap. As a nation we've treated lots of people that way - my grandparents came through Ellis Island and passed the "your white and disease free" test. Many other failed and took a sailing voyage back to their origin.
Finally, and I'll probably take a karma hit here from the "progressive" moderation block, the author's failure to "stand up" is a straw-man argument. Its not up to non-citizens to object to our government's actions. By his own admission he was applying for residency. We as a nation have a right to ask potential citizens to be 'good' citizens. While controversial in many cases, we do refuse citizenship to some based on their political standings that may be in direct conflict with the national consensus.
NOTE: I make no claim for or against the author's opinion about the wiretap program - this post _only_ addresses the immigration issue and how it pertains to his purported right to voice his opinion.
I would agree with and support any lawsuits against the INS that attack the idea of a faceless bureaucrat applying any political test on immigrants, since that leads to abuse of power. An open records policy, strongly enforced (FOIA) and a valid (read methodical) application & approval process is long overdue for our ailing immigration system.
Amen. XP is the primary OS for millions (Billions?) and does everything that most of these millions want. The problem stems from Microsoft being a public company, the shareholders expect (demand) something as fantasic as little Billy's first win with WIndows 3.1.
Time has passed, OS is no longer the core of innovation in computing science. Microsoft needs to learn this lesson before they end up like IBM of 1988, holding a bag of blisteringly expensive technology that fits the needs of a prior decade.
Then again, IBM is back, with an entirely new business model, and may eclipse Microsoft in stock valuation - as of Friday Microsoft had a cap of 170B, while IBM had a CAP of 110B and six times the Earnings per share as Microsoft.
It might not be a bad idea to think short-selling on MSFT in 6 months when they finally pull the trigger on XP and execute the "Peoples Front of Judea" plan.
Microsoft is going to cut-off the supply of valid OEM copies soon however. What will you do then?
Designs are expensive, but components are not. My PCB designs can support several different Bill-Of-Materials loads during manufacturing and when the boards are destined for industrial or military use we can use 'screened' parts which have been pre-selected and tested at high-temperature to ensure correct operation. Marginal parts at higher temps may be fine for consumer boxes (ie the ones on your desktop) but in a server box run 24-7-365 it-has-to-work-all-the-time may not be a good idea. I've been fustrated with the exact scenario quizzed in the original topic, using Maxtor SATAII 500GB disks as a drop-zone for my DLT backup machine I've had the HDDs for less than a month and already 3 of 4 failed with bad sectors because they all sit in a PC case. I'm going to have to rig out the box with extra fans, and the hastle of pulling and replacing the disks is driving me crazy too so now I'm adding removable disk bays. Not as easy or as cheap as I had anticipated (labor costs mostly).