Also, since it is fully "Web2.0" with a fully functional API, if you update your twitter status with "what you've been doing in your life" in the last 10 minutes... you can automatically push that status to Facebook, Myspace, AIM Status, livejournal, irc, all from one completely free microblogging site.
And its not just cell text integration, with an iphone web application like hahlo, an IM interface twitter@twitter.com on gmail, an SMS messaging interface not to mention the plain old web interface. So, it is a nice service, and the one that I use.
You're exporting it because youre removing just a current version, not the total document. Who cares how its stored natively? You'll never have access to it other than through the specified Docs interface and other defined web enabled interfaces.
It is like saying you are checking code out of CVS, but that you are not getting the actual CVS binary diffs and CVS installation configuration. You are just exporting a copy of the code in ASCII.
The point is: your documents aren't stored locally on any one machine. They are stored in your documents folder of your Google Account on a Google server. If you want to search through them, you search through your Google Account -- and you can do this from any machine. It is helpful if you have a phone, a laptop and a work desktop; your documents are available from any of them.
My presumption based on your local search comment is that you're still not thinking about the "cloud computing" initiative correctly.
Interface standards are becoming more than language specifications. People are more concerned now with API specifications (and language hooks into them) than the actual language (and OS!) that are used to call them. I think we (as a community of networked computers) are moving towards heterogeneous environments widely distributed.
If your C/C++/Perl/Fortran(yeah right)/VB have a well defined xmlrpc interface, it doesn't matter what the implementation of my code is.
So youre right that the question is flawed, everyone can program in whatever language they want, as long as the tools exist to export your logic to the outside world.
Ahh, but if your source is GPL'ed you have to distribute that outside the store somehow. Assuming that the store doesn't have a way to view/distribute the source for GPL'ed Apps.
What is the difference here between source distribution and binary/App distribution?
What good is having the source if you have no way to install it on the device after you modify it and compile it? How do you test your modifications? Do you compile it, buy a $99 cert for yourself and then "distribute" it to yourself through Apple? You brought up a good point. How can a developer (or team) test this stuff? I mean, can I load my own code on my phone without going through the store and signing process? Or will all the testing be unit testing within the SDK?
I mean, if I can develop custom apps for my phone or DL GPL source from sf (or equivalent: is iphonesource.com avaliable?) and compile it and load it, what use do I have of going through iTunes?
Every time I drive on the California 91 through the valleys north of Orange County, there is a big sign stating what the current toll is for the toll lanes. It fluctuates between 1.50 at midnight on Sunday to $6 on Thursday at 5pm.
Its p2p because if it was centralized, then the common carriers/ISPs would start to want a cut of the profit from the central place (think Google and BellSouth which started the whole Net Neutrality debacle). With p2p delivery, the ISP has no one central business they can point at to tell them to give them money for delivering their content.
This has also been mentioned the case for BBC's iPlayer. If the BBC is going to deliver all of their content over a connection they pay for, their ISP will filter it.
p2p is the thing that is filling the pipes because its the only distribution method that is dynamic enough to get around any sorts of filters.
Uhh, web based calendars (and google calendar) actually do have a client-server interface.
The problem is the thin-client (the web browser) not having Offline caching mechanisms to change data while offline and then re-sync (they can only view it). This is actually by design, since they are thin clients.
What you want is a thick, non-web based client to do the storage for you. That's fine, but its a limitation of the clients, not the actual service.
I have no other experience with hotmail, but my free webmail experience has consisted of Yahoo! and Gmail.
Let me tell you, Yahoo!'s spam rate has not improved. I am not sure if their filter isn't as good, or they are just taking money from the wrong people, but I get at least one spam message make it into my inbox per day, maybe 2-3. Oftentimes, the spamming links back to a geocities.com page. Coincidence? I don't know.
With Gmail, I get one spam message per month (maybe) make it into my inbox. They are so rare, its comforting. And since they are so few and far between, I actually use the 'Report Spam' option, because it looks like get this that their filters are actually updated with my input, and I don't see spam of that same type ever again.
This is different from Yahoo, I report spam all the time and yet the same exact message types make it past the filters into my inbox. I even report phishing there, but that doesnt' seem to help.
Can anyone with internal Yahoo webmail operation shed some light into what they actually do with user input? It would be nice to know that someone, somewhere (or at least a script) is using my button clicking for input.
There are 10000 other things in the news that show that common sense is still as rare as once believed. they just aren't posted on/., since they are just the norm.
Here, Mom, Dad, Brother or other close-knit family member living in a far away city (that you would trust with your Credit Card information) log in to my Amazon account and download all this music that I bought!
[Opposed to mailing them a hard disk of your music collection, or making a private ftp server]
According to Jody Goldberg's blog entry, implementing the fundamentals of OOXML took only a few days, and that implementing ODF "was significantly more difficult" than implementing OOXML. Jody also says, "ODF's model of 'chartness' didn't fit well with Gnumeric."
You have to understand that Gnumeric has already parsed XLS files (MS Excel Spreadsheets), and most likely used some structure associated with that data model internally. So, when they talk about implementing the fundamentals of OOXML, they already had the XLS parser written. Which is why it was easy. Jody didn't talk anything about the extended components or the code completeness of the OOXML spreadsheet/chart spec.
When dealing with physics, the approximate solution is, of course:
137
(or its inverse)
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... is the way that, if you look at a plain-vanilla HTML page it INSISTS on showing you a shrunken version that you've got to zoom in and scroll around to read
So you hate that it follows standards? Unless the viewport is specifically stated, then it doesn't know how to render the page. When it starts to assume things about the page and how to render it, is when non-compliant issues start to arise.
A simple <meta name="viewport" content="width=320"/> in the html header will fix that issue. It needs to be done on the server side though, so sites that could care less about it (like that one you linked) are sure to not display correctly.
Just work on an open code base in the language of choice. It will teach you more than you are willing to admit, and also (more importantly) will allow you to have something to talk about during your technical interviews.
or get a loaner phone, which probably doesn't have all your calendar and address book information, that a lot worse.
Uhh, I had to do a factory reset of my iPhone via iTunes the day after it came out (this is due to my user error, it hardlocked and I could have power+menu button together hard-reset it, but I didn't read the manual!). My contact information, SMS, calendar, Safari Bookmarks, Voicemails(!) all were saved. All were re-loaded onto my iPhone after the software reset and re-activation (which was "This phone is already activated."). [Note: this has to do with how the iphone syncs other program information.]
The only thing that I lost was my Camera Roll pictures (the ones that were taken with the phone), because I hadn't known at the time how to offload the pictures onto my computer (since fixed). And when I was playing with the picture settings, two (of seven) pictures that I had added to contacts were removed (but that was because I was fiddling with the on computer cached images).
So, if Apple gave me another loaner phone, I could just plug it into iTunes and have a fully functional replica re-synced phone in 2 minutes.
Everyone says that the iPhone revolution is all in the software, and it is.
People bought that exact thing... for $500/600. There is no 'hard drive' per se as you cannot access on board files, but you can transfer files onto it via common mechanisms. The OS is custom; there is mainstream software for it, but no SDK to develop your own applications.
If you read the article, even having the copyright to the song doesn't make them the copyright holders. For instance, playing the "Electric Slide" at a wedding and having everyone dance to it: who owns the copyright to the dance performance? The person/corp that owns the song rights? They touch upon this exact case in the article.
I am sure that Uri has certificates to prove his copyrights to his work... the problem is that his work is 8 seconds out of the 13 minute video. How can the content provider know what part, if any, the hosted video corresponds to the 'certificate of copyright'? Here's a hint: they don't.
but I think you'll find that the deal they're offering is better than the current crop of plans.
The only reason that most people will not update thier plans is that Cingular, at least in the past, resets your roll-over minutes when you update/change plans. Most people like me that have been on Cingular for more than a year have more than 3000 minutes saved up (basically unlimited) and the rate that I get roll-over minutes is the same as they are expiring [1:1, they expire after 12 months I believe]. I will always have 3000 minutes to use if there was ever a case in which I would need to use a lot a minutes a month, I won't get jacked. This is with a 450 minute/month plan.
Now the SMS is where they jack me... maybe I will update my plan.:x
The most important part that people are missing, is that this will be the first phone that the Manufacturer is >encouraging people to plug into their computer. It is the integration with other pieces of software that will make this thing good.
One thing that Apple has done so well with their ipod is the supporting software. The iphone shares the same ipod cable adapter, so lots of people will plug it into their computer just like they do thier ipod and it will be fully supported and the interface intuitive (there will be an itunes update in late June?).
Its more than just a phone. Its the iPhone+iTunes software (where iTunes in this case is managing your off-phone calendar, mail, etc.). Who cares about the actual phone specs, software support for my RAZR and SLVR have been stupidly bad at worst, and real bad at best.
If the data should be made public, shouldn't they just release the person's sex offense registration? I mean, they are registered after all. Now, if the people want the registration information, including where they live, or what sort of internet activity they partake in, why don't they contact the state/federal agency which maintains the registration? Most likely because its not constitutional to do so.
These AG's have really no law for which to claim these records.
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The same way that AOL Released Search Results for 650k users anonymously with huge privacy and "Spying" concerns.
In my opinion, this is no different, albeit not for academic reasons, but more for a commercial gain (which might make it worse).
Also, since it is fully "Web2.0" with a fully functional API, if you update your twitter status with "what you've been doing in your life" in the last 10 minutes ... you can automatically push that status to Facebook, Myspace, AIM Status, livejournal, irc, all from one completely free microblogging site.
And its not just cell text integration, with an iphone web application like hahlo, an IM interface twitter@twitter.com on gmail, an SMS messaging interface not to mention the plain old web interface. So, it is a nice service, and the one that I use.
You're exporting it because youre removing just a current version, not the total document. Who cares how its stored natively? You'll never have access to it other than through the specified Docs interface and other defined web enabled interfaces.
It is like saying you are checking code out of CVS, but that you are not getting the actual CVS binary diffs and CVS installation configuration. You are just exporting a copy of the code in ASCII.
The point is: your documents aren't stored locally on any one machine. They are stored in your documents folder of your Google Account on a Google server. If you want to search through them, you search through your Google Account -- and you can do this from any machine. It is helpful if you have a phone, a laptop and a work desktop; your documents are available from any of them.
My presumption based on your local search comment is that you're still not thinking about the "cloud computing" initiative correctly.
XMLRPC
SOAP
WS-*
Interface standards are becoming more than language specifications. People are more concerned now with API specifications (and language hooks into them) than the actual language (and OS!) that are used to call them. I think we (as a community of networked computers) are moving towards heterogeneous environments widely distributed.
If your C/C++/Perl/Fortran(yeah right)/VB have a well defined xmlrpc interface, it doesn't matter what the implementation of my code is.
So youre right that the question is flawed, everyone can program in whatever language they want, as long as the tools exist to export your logic to the outside world.
Ahh, but if your source is GPL'ed you have to distribute that outside the store somehow. Assuming that the store doesn't have a way to view/distribute the source for GPL'ed Apps.
What is the difference here between source distribution and binary/App distribution?
I mean, if I can develop custom apps for my phone or DL GPL source from sf (or equivalent: is iphonesource.com avaliable?) and compile it and load it, what use do I have of going through iTunes?
Every time I drive on the California 91 through the valleys north of Orange County, there is a big sign stating what the current toll is for the toll lanes. It fluctuates between 1.50 at midnight on Sunday to $6 on Thursday at 5pm.
How is this different?
Its p2p because if it was centralized, then the common carriers/ISPs would start to want a cut of the profit from the central place (think Google and BellSouth which started the whole Net Neutrality debacle). With p2p delivery, the ISP has no one central business they can point at to tell them to give them money for delivering their content.
This has also been mentioned the case for BBC's iPlayer. If the BBC is going to deliver all of their content over a connection they pay for, their ISP will filter it.
p2p is the thing that is filling the pipes because its the only distribution method that is dynamic enough to get around any sorts of filters.
Uhh, web based calendars (and google calendar) actually do have a client-server interface.
The problem is the thin-client (the web browser) not having Offline caching mechanisms to change data while offline and then re-sync (they can only view it). This is actually by design, since they are thin clients.
What you want is a thick, non-web based client to do the storage for you. That's fine, but its a limitation of the clients, not the actual service.
I have no other experience with hotmail, but my free webmail experience has consisted of Yahoo! and Gmail.
Let me tell you, Yahoo!'s spam rate has not improved. I am not sure if their filter isn't as good, or they are just taking money from the wrong people, but I get at least one spam message make it into my inbox per day, maybe 2-3. Oftentimes, the spamming links back to a geocities.com page. Coincidence? I don't know.
With Gmail, I get one spam message per month (maybe) make it into my inbox. They are so rare, its comforting. And since they are so few and far between, I actually use the 'Report Spam' option, because it looks like get this that their filters are actually updated with my input, and I don't see spam of that same type ever again.
This is different from Yahoo, I report spam all the time and yet the same exact message types make it past the filters into my inbox. I even report phishing there, but that doesnt' seem to help.
Can anyone with internal Yahoo webmail operation shed some light into what they actually do with user input? It would be nice to know that someone, somewhere (or at least a script) is using my button clicking for input.
There are 10000 other things in the news that show that common sense is still as rare as once believed. they just aren't posted on /., since they are just the norm.
Here, Mom, Dad, Brother or other close-knit family member living in a far away city (that you would trust with your Credit Card information) log in to my Amazon account and download all this music that I bought!
[Opposed to mailing them a hard disk of your music collection, or making a private ftp server]
You have to understand that Gnumeric has already parsed XLS files (MS Excel Spreadsheets), and most likely used some structure associated with that data model internally. So, when they talk about implementing the fundamentals of OOXML, they already had the XLS parser written. Which is why it was easy. Jody didn't talk anything about the extended components or the code completeness of the OOXML spreadsheet/chart spec.
When dealing with physics, the approximate solution is, of course:
137
(or its inverse)
So you hate that it follows standards? Unless the viewport is specifically stated, then it doesn't know how to render the page. When it starts to assume things about the page and how to render it, is when non-compliant issues start to arise.
A simple <meta name="viewport" content="width=320"
Just work on an open code base in the language of choice. It will teach you more than you are willing to admit, and also (more importantly) will allow you to have something to talk about during your technical interviews.
The Msg ID is 10 characters with 2 numbers and 3 non-alphanumeric characters... for a really long one-off string that I do not care to remember.
This is something that I wish AT&T and Apple would get together on!
Uhh, I had to do a factory reset of my iPhone via iTunes the day after it came out (this is due to my user error, it hardlocked and I could have power+menu button together hard-reset it, but I didn't read the manual!). My contact information, SMS, calendar, Safari Bookmarks, Voicemails(!) all were saved. All were re-loaded onto my iPhone after the software reset and re-activation (which was "This phone is already activated."). [Note: this has to do with how the iphone syncs other program information.]
The only thing that I lost was my Camera Roll pictures (the ones that were taken with the phone), because I hadn't known at the time how to offload the pictures onto my computer (since fixed). And when I was playing with the picture settings, two (of seven) pictures that I had added to contacts were removed (but that was because I was fiddling with the on computer cached images).
So, if Apple gave me another loaner phone, I could just plug it into iTunes and have a fully functional replica re-synced phone in 2 minutes.
Everyone says that the iPhone revolution is all in the software, and it is.
People bought that exact thing... for $500/600. There is no 'hard drive' per se as you cannot access on board files, but you can transfer files onto it via common mechanisms. The OS is custom; there is mainstream software for it, but no SDK to develop your own applications.
What am i?
If you read the article, even having the copyright to the song doesn't make them the copyright holders. For instance, playing the "Electric Slide" at a wedding and having everyone dance to it: who owns the copyright to the dance performance? The person/corp that owns the song rights? They touch upon this exact case in the article.
I am sure that Uri has certificates to prove his copyrights to his work... the problem is that his work is 8 seconds out of the 13 minute video. How can the content provider know what part, if any, the hosted video corresponds to the 'certificate of copyright'? Here's a hint: they don't.
Yes, but internationally, that should be "Mi coche consigue 40 barras al cabeza del cerdo"; hopefully the units know the internationalization!
The only reason that most people will not update thier plans is that Cingular, at least in the past, resets your roll-over minutes when you update/change plans. Most people like me that have been on Cingular for more than a year have more than 3000 minutes saved up (basically unlimited) and the rate that I get roll-over minutes is the same as they are expiring [1:1, they expire after 12 months I believe]. I will always have 3000 minutes to use if there was ever a case in which I would need to use a lot a minutes a month, I won't get jacked. This is with a 450 minute/month plan.
Now the SMS is where they jack me... maybe I will update my plan.
The most important part that people are missing, is that this will be the first phone that the Manufacturer is >encouraging people to plug into their computer. It is the integration with other pieces of software that will make this thing good.
One thing that Apple has done so well with their ipod is the supporting software. The iphone shares the same ipod cable adapter, so lots of people will plug it into their computer just like they do thier ipod and it will be fully supported and the interface intuitive (there will be an itunes update in late June?).
Its more than just a phone. Its the iPhone+iTunes software (where iTunes in this case is managing your off-phone calendar, mail, etc.). Who cares about the actual phone specs, software support for my RAZR and SLVR have been stupidly bad at worst, and real bad at best.
I agree that the ACLU should be all over this.
If the data should be made public, shouldn't they just release the person's sex offense registration? I mean, they are registered after all. Now, if the people want the registration information, including where they live, or what sort of internet activity they partake in, why don't they contact the state/federal agency which maintains the registration? Most likely because its not constitutional to do so.
These AG's have really no law for which to claim these records.
No Ads, nice review with content. Why are you linking your blog on /. again?