America voted for him...... twice. What does that say about America?
Now you leave him in power, pissing away your reputation with the rest of the world, your ecology and your economy and you sit by while his pals in Washington stall and the press (who like their comfy little world) gloss over it all.
Will the election bring anything better? Possibly... but unless a clear message is sent loud and clear now where is the incentive for the President (Obama, Mcain or whoever ends up with the job) or any of your other elected officials to treat the law as more than a guideline and care about the American people as more than a source of revenue and sometimes cannon fodder?
You should be proud of your elected officials, your mechanisms of State and your country... not apologizing every time you meet a foreigner.
The independent media - Slashdot and the rest of the citizen journalist world - are the last line of defense against the brainwashing and dumbing down that traditional media are very complicit in supporting.
Gosh, I feel like a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist reading this but.... am I that wrong?!
Dude, I know the folks at Neopets got all excited, but... it's not the whole Microsoft.com... it's the downloads page, and it's only a beta so they're probably going to tweak it.
No-one cries when Adobe make you use Flash to access their stuff (and those 60m uniques at Microsoft.com were what helped catapult Flash to fame, not Macromedia).
If folks would stop squealing for 5 minutes because it's a new Microsoft technology and therefore must be evil and actually have a play with it.... it's really easy to get started with (in fact I wrote my first SL example on a Mac using nothing more than a text editor.... try doing Flash development without forking out a bundle)
Oh, and the downloads a shade over a meg. On my connection here that's about 15 seconds to download, install and continue...
...However, my sympathy for the BBC on this issue is tempered by the information that one of the senior execs in charge of making the decisions is an ex-Microsoft Windows Media Player guy, which does tend to suggest scope for conflict of interest on his part.....
who actually joined after the decisions had already been made and approved by the BBC Trust.
The BBC have already said that they're committed to reviewing the cross platform issues (and assuming that they go with, say, MS Silverlight that works on PCs and Macs probably hits >98% of the desktop market and with the Mono teams Moonlight port hits the rest. The only sticking point is DRM which apparently is coming real soon - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/silverligh t_iplayer_playready/ - assuming MS and Mono can play nice and get a ported client)... I don't get why people are so up in arms about this.
Just like b&w to colour, or analogue to digital the Beeb have to target the vast majority of their users for the maximum attention. Linux and OSX are still a small (but vocal) percentage. I'd be happier for the Beeb to iron out the problems on the WinXP crowd first and give us something that works right;)
One of the nice things with the Silverlight http://silverlight.net/ platform is that the playback model supports close captioning out of the box using a pretty standard XML markup. Expression Media Encoder will even do the heavy lifting and produce a web optimised version of the video with captioning and roll you a template based player. For user produced content the hardest thing is getting people to remember to consider captioning. When you're working with studio produced content the hardest thing can sometimes be getting those assets to combine with the content!
was planning to buy a new Media Center when the cablecard boxes start shipping .
why would anyone pay a premium for a crippled product?
I bought a DVD Recorder the other day. It's got an IrDA blaster and I can record SD shows straight to DVD (and if I care enough rip 'em to PC later) - no EPG... well Comcast publish it and I can work a remote.
My old MCE works fairly well, but I'll probably use it run to run Joost when they work out how to let me use a remote control...
:) I like/. although it's very anti-MS and I happen to use a lot of MS tech for choice.
I'm so glad there's folks like Clint around who go find solutions to the problems instead of posting 377 times that Vista sux - helps keep me sane, and hopefully reminds folks that there's hooks in Win32 to make a lot of clever stuff (fairly) easy to write...
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America voted for him...... twice.
What does that say about America?
Now you leave him in power, pissing away your reputation with the rest of the world, your ecology and your economy and you sit by while his pals in Washington stall and the press (who like their comfy little world) gloss over it all.
Will the election bring anything better? Possibly... but unless a clear message is sent loud and clear now where is the incentive for the President (Obama, Mcain or whoever ends up with the job) or any of your other elected officials to treat the law as more than a guideline and care about the American people as more than a source of revenue and sometimes cannon fodder?
You should be proud of your elected officials, your mechanisms of State and your country... not apologizing every time you meet a foreigner.
The independent media - Slashdot and the rest of the citizen journalist world - are the last line of defense against the brainwashing and dumbing down that traditional media are very complicit in supporting.
Gosh, I feel like a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist reading this but.... am I that wrong?!
Dude, I know the folks at Neopets got all excited, but ... it's not the whole Microsoft.com ... it's the downloads page, and it's only a beta so they're probably going to tweak it.
.... try doing Flash development without forking out a bundle)
No-one cries when Adobe make you use Flash to access their stuff (and those 60m uniques at Microsoft.com were what helped catapult Flash to fame, not Macromedia).
If folks would stop squealing for 5 minutes because it's a new Microsoft technology and therefore must be evil and actually have a play with it.... it's really easy to get started with (in fact I wrote my first SL example on a Mac using nothing more than a text editor
Oh, and the downloads a shade over a meg. On my connection here that's about 15 seconds to download, install and continue...
...However, my sympathy for the BBC on this issue is tempered by the information that one of the senior execs in charge of making the decisions is an ex-Microsoft Windows Media Player guy, which does tend to suggest scope for conflict of interest on his part..... who actually joined after the decisions had already been made and approved by the BBC Trust. The BBC have already said that they're committed to reviewing the cross platform issues (and assuming that they go with, say, MS Silverlight that works on PCs and Macs probably hits >98% of the desktop market and with the Mono teams Moonlight port hits the rest. The only sticking point is DRM which apparently is coming real soon - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/16/silverligh t_iplayer_playready/ - assuming MS and Mono can play nice and get a ported client) ... I don't get why people are so up in arms about this.
Just like b&w to colour, or analogue to digital the Beeb have to target the vast majority of their users for the maximum attention. Linux and OSX are still a small (but vocal) percentage. I'd be happier for the Beeb to iron out the problems on the WinXP crowd first and give us something that works right ;)
it's been a while since anyone mentioned the malformed tag as a problem3 -04-20/2003-04-26/0
;)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/319360/200
Would all the anti IE folks please put this on their site immediately so I don't have to spend time on them
One of the nice things with the Silverlight http://silverlight.net/ platform is that the playback model supports close captioning out of the box using a pretty standard XML markup. Expression Media Encoder will even do the heavy lifting and produce a web optimised version of the video with captioning and roll you a template based player.
For user produced content the hardest thing is getting people to remember to consider captioning. When you're working with studio produced content the hardest thing can sometimes be getting those assets to combine with the content!
was planning to buy a new Media Center when the cablecard boxes start shipping . why would anyone pay a premium for a crippled product? I bought a DVD Recorder the other day. It's got an IrDA blaster and I can record SD shows straight to DVD (and if I care enough rip 'em to PC later) - no EPG... well Comcast publish it and I can work a remote. My old MCE works fairly well, but I'll probably use it run to run Joost when they work out how to let me use a remote control...
:) I like /. although it's very anti-MS and I happen to use a lot of MS tech for choice.
I'm so glad there's folks like Clint around who go find solutions to the problems instead of posting 377 times that Vista sux - helps keep me sane, and hopefully reminds folks that there's hooks in Win32 to make a lot of clever stuff (fairly) easy to write...
Clint got fed up with the bitchin' and produced a neat little app to make the problem go away - have a look here for the app (and source) http://betterthaneveryone.com/?p=517 I tweaked it a little to add an easy on/off switch for aero at any time - until Clint integrates the changes it's available at http://blog.offbeatmammal.com/blogs/obm/archive/20 07/05/09/better-battery-life.aspx