Well, it may be the best "overall" media player, but I've found it's not better than mediocre in any area. I ended up having three or four media players, and just using one based on what I'm watching/listening to.
About all I used VLC for is my TV Tuner because I didn't feel like getting MythTV set up, and along with a command line channel switcher, it worked fine.
From the traveler's point of view, wouldn't it be space dilation? Someone on the ground would see the traveler experiencing time slower, but to the relevant individual (the traveler), the stars would get closer.
Probably quote: Is it just me, or did the universe suddenly get small?
The real reason they don't allow that stuff on a plane is that the electromagnetic waves will bounce around in there and cook all the passengers!
Honest, this unkempt guy on the street, who smelled like a brewery, holding a wine bottle in a paper bag told me! Apparently he knew the real reason and the gub'ment was after him, so he had to hide. How could you not trust someone who would go to such extremes to disguise himself?
Say goodbye to Netbeans. IBM doesn't want competition to Eclipse.
Why? It doesn't compete with eclipse now. I've used modern and 2 year old installs of eclipse, and my last netbeans install was less than 6 months ago.
Swing will be slowly killed, to be replaced by SWT. As for Websphere, it's known to break the JEE spec, and indicates the direction IBM will take Java in.
Good riddance. Most swing based applications I have had the misfortune of using, have failed miserably at being cross platform, regardless of Sun or IBM JVM. Even if SWT is worse in that regard, it doesn't matter, because I've given up on swing as far as making any reliable cross platform app. Replacing one thing that is not sufficiently useful with another, well, I could care less.
OpenOffice, right now not the cleanest, most user friendly app, will worsen if Lotus Symphony is anything to go by.
I think this is the first thing I can truely agree on. I certainly would not want to see OO disappear or be so defiled.
Sorry, I've never been very impressed by Sun, and to be honest, for the longest time, I had better luck with IBMs JVM. Given the choice (and my prior experience), I'll take an IBM product over a Sun product any day.
Then again, I also have had a Mac and went back, as your sig mentions, so maybe I've just had different experiences, and have different priorities.
Actually, it wasn't that (at least, not according to several people at Stone Lab, where I was last summer). The problem was mostly caused by fertilizer runoff, which fed the algea/plankton.
If it were the zebra mussels, it would have balanced out in a couple of years, a decade at absolute most. It was only when they worked at handling fertilizer runoff that the problem started getting solved.
This experiment has proved that iron fertilization is not going to work as a carbon storage strategy.
No, it prooved that by this method it wont work.
Altering the method might fix it. How should they do that? I'd start by studying data from Lake Eerie in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The desired effect happened then - a lot of photosynthetic biomass that wasn't getting eaten nearly as fast as it was made.
However, is suspect that would only work in a shallow sea, and kill a lot of the life in that sea. Mostly, it would defeat the purpose of the seeding.
So basically, the experiment was infected. Maybe they should try seeding smaller areas, lessening the chance of an infection spreading over the whole seeding zone.
True, but I've had several hard drives from MANUFACTURER_A which have been dropped several feet (while off) onto both hard tile and carpeted floors, and get plugged in and work fine for years. Another, while on, took a three foot fling/tumble when my notebook satchel slipped from my arm (I hadn't realized I left the computer on), and it survived.
Then I went to MANUFACTURER_B, and a turned off computer with a minitower case slipped and fell on it's side, and the drive died (a few other similar, relatively low impatct collisions with these drives had similar effect).
A third manufactuer was similar to the first in my experience. Then there was a fourth that worked great, except at the slightest hint of shock, they started making crazy noises from then on (they worked, but if a drive starts making noises all of a sudden like that, you can't really trust it).
They have given a few reasons, such as concerns over supportability and enterprise-readiness[...]
And there's a simple answer to that. They want to be able to pay another company for a support contract. Preferably a company that has been in business for a while. If you can show that, you are 90% of the way there, if you can't show that, then you aren't more than 10% of the way there.
Were you told that by the Department of Misinformation (opened around the time the Misinformation Department closed?) or the Department of Little White Lies?
Damnit, and hard to type. But, there's an example of a word that can have multiple meanings (and in this case, only distinguished by a capitalization and context.
that should be
"haben Sie".
Sie = you, respectful sie = she
"Do you have a jelly donut", not "does she have a jelly donut"
Copper and silver are much better conductors however. Gold is rather closer to aluminum in terms of conductance - not bad. However, with the cost of gold vs. silver or copper, there's better for cheaper.
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"in soviet america..." jokes
Asimov fits with "worry" pretty well
Well, it may be the best "overall" media player, but I've found it's not better than mediocre in any area. I ended up having three or four media players, and just using one based on what I'm watching/listening to.
About all I used VLC for is my TV Tuner because I didn't feel like getting MythTV set up, and along with a command line channel switcher, it worked fine.
Actually, it proves that there is no "Aether" that propagates light waves, analogous to air (or other matter) that propagates sound waves.
That does not discount the possibility of a space-time fabric, it simply states that it is not the thing that propagates light.
From the traveler's point of view, wouldn't it be space dilation? Someone on the ground would see the traveler experiencing time slower, but to the relevant individual (the traveler), the stars would get closer.
Probably quote: Is it just me, or did the universe suddenly get small?
That's the only statement you could come up with?
What a Bohr.
it sounds like the problem is that it's /their/ brains that are mushed.
What was he eating that he clogged up the US toilet?
Then it turns out it's just petty politician squabbling. Gotta love politicians.
Everyone knows that's an urban legend!
The real reason they don't allow that stuff on a plane is that the electromagnetic waves will bounce around in there and cook all the passengers!
Honest, this unkempt guy on the street, who smelled like a brewery, holding a wine bottle in a paper bag told me! Apparently he knew the real reason and the gub'ment was after him, so he had to hide. How could you not trust someone who would go to such extremes to disguise himself?
Aye. I would like to thank Kylar and his spectacularly incompetent/offensive introduction in encouraging me not to read this potentially good book.
Shall we call it Chinese Roulette instead of Russian Roulette?
crashed. A lot. With a sun JVM.
It was slower than eclipse.
The text complete didn't work as well.
Say goodbye to Netbeans. IBM doesn't want competition to Eclipse.
Why? It doesn't compete with eclipse now. I've used modern and 2 year old installs of eclipse, and my last netbeans install was less than 6 months ago.
Swing will be slowly killed, to be replaced by SWT. As for Websphere, it's known to break the JEE spec, and indicates the direction IBM will take Java in.
Good riddance. Most swing based applications I have had the misfortune of using, have failed miserably at being cross platform, regardless of Sun or IBM JVM. Even if SWT is worse in that regard, it doesn't matter, because I've given up on swing as far as making any reliable cross platform app. Replacing one thing that is not sufficiently useful with another, well, I could care less.
OpenOffice, right now not the cleanest, most user friendly app, will worsen if Lotus Symphony is anything to go by.
I think this is the first thing I can truely agree on. I certainly would not want to see OO disappear or be so defiled.
IBM vs. Oracle: battle of the century?
OK. I voted. "No".
Sorry, I've never been very impressed by Sun, and to be honest, for the longest time, I had better luck with IBMs JVM. Given the choice (and my prior experience), I'll take an IBM product over a Sun product any day.
Then again, I also have had a Mac and went back, as your sig mentions, so maybe I've just had different experiences, and have different priorities.
Actually, it wasn't that (at least, not according to several people at Stone Lab, where I was last summer). The problem was mostly caused by fertilizer runoff, which fed the algea/plankton.
If it were the zebra mussels, it would have balanced out in a couple of years, a decade at absolute most. It was only when they worked at handling fertilizer runoff that the problem started getting solved.
This experiment has proved that iron fertilization is not going to work as a carbon storage strategy.
No, it prooved that by this method it wont work.
Altering the method might fix it. How should they do that? I'd start by studying data from Lake Eerie in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The desired effect happened then - a lot of photosynthetic biomass that wasn't getting eaten nearly as fast as it was made.
However, is suspect that would only work in a shallow sea, and kill a lot of the life in that sea. Mostly, it would defeat the purpose of the seeding.
So basically, the experiment was infected. Maybe they should try seeding smaller areas, lessening the chance of an infection spreading over the whole seeding zone.
True, but I've had several hard drives from MANUFACTURER_A which have been dropped several feet (while off) onto both hard tile and carpeted floors, and get plugged in and work fine for years. Another, while on, took a three foot fling/tumble when my notebook satchel slipped from my arm (I hadn't realized I left the computer on), and it survived.
Then I went to MANUFACTURER_B, and a turned off computer with a minitower case slipped and fell on it's side, and the drive died (a few other similar, relatively low impatct collisions with these drives had similar effect).
A third manufactuer was similar to the first in my experience. Then there was a fourth that worked great, except at the slightest hint of shock, they started making crazy noises from then on (they worked, but if a drive starts making noises all of a sudden like that, you can't really trust it).
Good question. Problem is, I don't trust any of the current SCSI/SAS manufacturers to have high-physical shock tolerance.
I'm guessing you are mostly replying to this:
They have given a few reasons, such as concerns over supportability and enterprise-readiness[...]
And there's a simple answer to that. They want to be able to pay another company for a support contract. Preferably a company that has been in business for a while. If you can show that, you are 90% of the way there, if you can't show that, then you aren't more than 10% of the way there.
Were you told that by the Department of Misinformation (opened around the time the Misinformation Department closed?) or the Department of Little White Lies?
Damnit, and hard to type. But, there's an example of a word that can have multiple meanings (and in this case, only distinguished by a capitalization and context.
that should be
"haben Sie".
Sie = you, respectful
sie = she
"Do you have a jelly donut", not "does she have a jelly donut"
Oh, come on, it's great for messing with peoples heads.
Though, for me, German is more fun to speak. It's insane, but in a good way.
Guten tag, haben sie ein Berliner?
Gold is useful because it doesn't oxidize.
Copper and silver are much better conductors however. Gold is rather closer to aluminum in terms of conductance - not bad. However, with the cost of gold vs. silver or copper, there's better for cheaper.