mikemol

9 ms·

31.
by mikemol 16y ago
You know, some of us like to be able to watch a large block of multimedia data multiple times without chewing through bandwidth allocation, or spending exorbitant amounts of money on a high-end DOCSIS or crap-hardware VDSL connection. I hav
32.
by mikemol 16y ago
That greatly depends on the nature of the original data. Some forms of data are already compressed, such as images. Most websites apply gzip or DEFLATE (gzip is built on DEFLATE) compression serverside if your browser indicates it understan
33.
by mikemol 16y ago
Meh. I got my vanity domain back with FreeYourID. first.last.name. :)
34.
by mikemol 16y ago
Only because they figured out who, er...nm.
35.
by mikemol 16y ago
What might it cost to buy off the data to a reliable datastore? Could the format of the data be opened to let outsiders write the processing tools?
36.
by mikemol 16y ago
"Nothing is stopping the church from hosting their own website" Except, possibly, finding an ISP whose TOS are more tolerant of customer content. I'm sure they exist, I just wouldn't know where to find them.
37.
by mikemol 16y ago
I fear that by life difficult for power users, Apple (and any vendor who follows their path) will reduce the number of power users that evolve every year--and we need power users as seeds for growing developers. A creative developer doesn't
38.
by mikemol 16y ago
Windows SxS was supposed to ensure that programs would get linked to the latest version of a DLL that the program would be compatible with. There are even conditional forwarders set up for it. You could have a program that would only link a
39.
by mikemol 16y ago
Non sequitur; you can't call your actions driven by being a rational person, yet choose to exclude data points because run counter to your desired conclusion. If you're excluding data points because they lead you away from your desired conc
40.
by mikemol 16y ago
"(boy remember when Classmates was the place to be?)" No.
41.
by mikemol 16y ago
'Adaptive optics' generally means lenses and the like whose shape (and possibly other properties) varies during operation to meet current operational requirements.
42.
by mikemol 16y ago
Not only no on-board fuel, but no on-board propellant, either. There goes everything I learned about rockets from Heinlein. Slick!
43.
by mikemol 16y ago
No. Startup founders will adapt. It's what they do.
44.
by mikemol 16y ago
If I had to guess, it looks like it's a competition for dish presentation? So, it'd get its energy from the ego and competitiveness of the people who participate. No idea what they're looking for for a revenue model, unless they're trying t
45.
by mikemol 16y ago
And it doesn't capture keyboard input except from known text widgets? My paranoia rests with pagewide onKey* hooks and the like. I'm not a JS guy, though, but I'd assume those are possible. That's why I was curious about total opt-out of ke
46.
by mikemol 16y ago
For PC hardware, in-house there's a 1.8GHz Athlon running Asterisk. Out in the field, I think our lowest end is a P4 2.2GHz. Non-PC hardware? I don't know; embedded devices all kinda blur together for me.
47.
by mikemol 16y ago
Sure, as long as you're aware that you're reading marketing material, and are aware of the bias that goes with that. People often are more sheeple than critical thinkers, though. [I think] The anger is generally on the part of the critical
48.
by mikemol 16y ago
Is it plausible to turn off all text capture, or use an 'opt-in' approach to fields and hooks, rather than an opt-out? (edit: On the part of the site administrator, I mean.)
49.
by mikemol 16y ago
A point of worry. You mention tracking keyboard actions. Does that include as they're typing into text and password fields? If you're trying to avoid capturing that kind of data, how can you be sure you're filtering out, e.g. custom JS-driv
50.
by mikemol 16y ago
Looks like it works now. Wish I'd taken a screenshot earlier. FF 3.6.8 on Win7 Ultimate x64. Display at 1600x1200 @ 120dpi.
51.
by mikemol 16y ago
Beta signup form broken? It looks like all the input fields from "website you'd like to use" onward (including submit button/links) are missing.
52.
by mikemol 16y ago
In general, I think the problem breaks down this way: 1) Humans respond in intuitive, predictable ways to graphics, particularly with a greater emphasis on emotional response. (As opposed to an analytical response.) 2) All information sourc
53.
by mikemol 16y ago
Scarcity is a natural property of supply, which is a natural factor of price. As a property without inherent artificial component, scarcity cannot artificially affect price without said scarcity itself being given an artificial component su
54.
by mikemol 16y ago
Even if growing and selling were legalized, the cartels are essentially private in-house, in-industry armies. I expect there'd be a flare-up of violence as they attempt to intimidate legal growers into backing off. Within a few years, thoug
55.
by mikemol 16y ago
(pedantic) For a physical object, scarcity isn't inherently an artificially inflating factor. Enforced scarcity is a different matter. (/pedantic)
56.
by mikemol 16y ago
And good on them; that'd be good for my grandmother, especially now that my grandfather's old SLR has died. There's still a demographic out there that doesn't pick up on new tech quickly, either because they can't, they won't, or they don't
57.
by mikemol 16y ago
Low-latency email carrying is awesomely variable. It's asynchronous, and I can reply quickly if I want to. If I don't want to (such as if a fast response is more a waste of time, or encouraging unnecessary queries), I can hold off for an ho
58.
by mikemol 16y ago
Good point. I think Microsoft calls those SKUs. (They just didn't put the same brand name on it, I suppose.)
59.
by mikemol 16y ago
Understood, and I think I agree with you. I was thinking in terms of larger prices (i.e. $500 on up; I tend to work with custom and specialized software in my day job.).
60.
by mikemol 16y ago
I suppose that's true; below a certain point, the effect of a price is pretty inelastic.

More ›