90% of the flash content on the web does not need any more than Flash 5-6 Honestly the bloat and crap shoveled into 8-9-10 is really not useful for the webcomic,video player wrapper, and slideshows that compromise the bulk of flash on the web.
Why not actually build a space station that is useful and then get a "shuttle" in orbit that can go and get the satellite, take it to the service bay on the space station and work on it there.
Waiting for parts? The FedEx rocket will launch next thursday so be sure to get your order in on monday.
I have a copy of NT4 that will run on an alpha.... No PPC port though......
Windows runs on far fewer hardware platforms than BSD or Linux does. It's a quite limited OS in it's hardware capabilities. also the current version of the windows OS has far less hardware support than Linux or OSX does. I have several devices that work perfectly under both OSX and linux but there are no drivers available for Windows 7.
Don't like ads on TV? Build a mythbox and filter them out. Don't like ads on the radio? Listen to community stations that broadcast "sponsored by ad's" or podcasts that are now full of ad's. Don't like ads in your applications? Jailbreak the phone and install a Ad filter.
Screw them. Find a technology end run and use it.
I found that the podcasts I like have ad's that are easily detected and stripped via a python script I wrote... This week in photography is now ad free, but it's still turning into "this week in videography with a DSLR" and they are ignoring photography....
It was less than 1 year when cable tv discovered that they can rape the consumer over and over without lube and they take it.
Even now IT happens. $100.00 a month for internet and cable tv? That's insane. Both together at the HIGH price should not cost more than $50.00 a month for the quality I see coming out of the likes of Charter, Comcast and Time Warner..
I am honestly surprised we dont have all out internet connections going through a transparent proxy at the Cable company injecting ad's left and right.
Yup just like how one eyed people cant aim and fire a gun, or shoot archery, target practice....
Oh wait, they do. lack of 3d does not hamper them at all as they learn to adapt. and the cheesy 3d we will get with video games will not affect gameplay.. it's only going to be put in as a "by golly" effect and nothing more.
Another news flash. It's gonna suck unless you own a TV capable of it or a 120hz tv that really IS 120hz and not all marketing hype like most of the sets that touted it were.
I.E. Displays 120hz! but wont accept a signal that is 120hz refresh rate....
It's because plumbers and Electricians have a "trade union" here in the states. They have been able to make it so you cant be one without being in the Union. Even laws passed in some states that require it.
Dont need "equilivant" Wine recently is far more stable.
I even have Sony Vegas video editing software running under it.
I am sure that crappy VB6 sales app your company pays $6800.00 a year for will run fine..... Now will they support it or blame every bug in the thing on your Install....
If they can blame it on something else, they will..
Only in IT training. user training would be close to zero in cost, at minimum it will be identical to a Windows 7 migration.
users do not need to be retrained even on a un-configured Ubuntu install. Skilled IT configure it right? Everything will be where the users want it to be. Hell you can even install Internet Explorer under Wine for that internal website that is incompatible with everything.
User coddling is what encourages that behavior.. The request should be forwarded to the users manager with a note, "Tell them to STOP wasting company time with this ridiculous crap."
but no, we get a 2 month training window to re-train all the employees on the use of the new Office version... Yet my suggestion to switch to Open Office was shot down with the "It will cost too much to re-train".. no wonder I quit and left that company.
And places like Comcast did not migrate to it until the spring of 2006.
Here we are looking at Migrating AWAY from windows 7. We have had nothing but trouble with customer control hardware and device programming. It's probably due to using the 64 bit version of Windows 7 but Dell does not give you the option to select a 32 bit version with new laptops..
WE are downgrading field PC's to XP and office PC's are upgrading to Ubuntu with crossover office for Vertical Windows legacy apps. We switched to Open Office 3 years ago when the BSA came knocking and the boss lost his mind over how the BSA fined us for something we were legit but did not have the documentation the BSA wanted.
Open source is the first choice here and closed source a last resort. It's really refreshing.
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90% of the flash content on the web does not need any more than Flash 5-6 Honestly the bloat and crap shoveled into 8-9-10 is really not useful for the webcomic,video player wrapper, and slideshows that compromise the bulk of flash on the web.
Why deorbit?
Why not actually build a space station that is useful and then get a "shuttle" in orbit that can go and get the satellite, take it to the service bay on the space station and work on it there.
Waiting for parts? The FedEx rocket will launch next thursday so be sure to get your order in on monday.
Add in Industrial Disease and some of the other classics and I'm in!
Windows had nothing to do with standardizing the hardware. It was everyone and their brother copying the hell out of IBM.
you have Compaq to thank for most of what we have in the Intel PC today. Intel simply continued down the same road.
The mac mini has a Ton more horsepower than that Aspire Revo. It's not low end hardware.
We got 20 of them here as a Final Cut render farm.... works wonderfully.
I have a copy of NT4 that will run on an alpha.... No PPC port though......
Windows runs on far fewer hardware platforms than BSD or Linux does. It's a quite limited OS in it's hardware capabilities. also the current version of the windows OS has far less hardware support than Linux or OSX does. I have several devices that work perfectly under both OSX and linux but there are no drivers available for Windows 7.
desktop PCs running Windows are likely the juiciest targets for establishing a botnet.
because the users of that OS in that configuration are far more likely to click on a popup or run an attachment sent to them.
Embedded systems dont get infected as fast because it does a good job of removing the idiot user from the loop.
http://lifehacker.com/5060621/block-ads-on-your-jailbroken-iphone-or-ipod-touch
Block all the ad's and dont use up your limited data connection with useless Ad's.
BAH! they lie.
They can do the SAME thing that the TV and radio ad people do.
If you think that the Cable TV and Radio and Print ad's get a nice analytics report back, then you're nuts.
you get to pay $X to run your ad X times a day for X days...
They can EASILY go back to that. They cant do low cost ad whoring, but that's a good thing.
Don't like ads on TV? Build a mythbox and filter them out. Don't like ads on the radio? Listen to community stations that broadcast "sponsored by ad's" or podcasts that are now full of ad's. Don't like ads in your applications? Jailbreak the phone and install a Ad filter.
Screw them. Find a technology end run and use it.
I found that the podcasts I like have ad's that are easily detected and stripped via a python script I wrote... This week in photography is now ad free, but it's still turning into "this week in videography with a DSLR" and they are ignoring photography....
there is no going back and there is no way of "Ignore updates" of an app so you are stuck with a constant nagging update indicator.
This is intentional.. Apple wants forced updates.
and that will drive piracy more than anything else.
I instantly delete any app I find that has "admob" or other stupid ad crap in it.
If you want to release a free app, then release a free app. If you want to get paid, then charge for the damn thing.
Ad supported is crap and I dont tolerate ad's on my phone.
It was less than 1 year when cable tv discovered that they can rape the consumer over and over without lube and they take it.
Even now IT happens. $100.00 a month for internet and cable tv? That's insane. Both together at the HIGH price should not cost more than $50.00 a month for the quality I see coming out of the likes of Charter, Comcast and Time Warner..
I am honestly surprised we dont have all out internet connections going through a transparent proxy at the Cable company injecting ad's left and right.
Yup just like how one eyed people cant aim and fire a gun, or shoot archery, target practice....
Oh wait, they do. lack of 3d does not hamper them at all as they learn to adapt. and the cheesy 3d we will get with video games will not affect gameplay.. it's only going to be put in as a "by golly" effect and nothing more.
shutter glasses systems have been around for PC 3d far longer than the cardboard and 2 color glasses. It's not new.
I had a set from Sega that plugged into the printer port back in 1995....
They sucked then.... They suck now. Until you can eliminate the glasses it will continue to suck.
News flash: It's still fake.
Another news flash. It's gonna suck unless you own a TV capable of it or a 120hz tv that really IS 120hz and not all marketing hype like most of the sets that touted it were.
I.E. Displays 120hz! but wont accept a signal that is 120hz refresh rate....
Do you honestly believe a person with only one eye can perceive depth the same as a normal sighted person?
Yes. I've seen it.
One eyed archer. He looks downrange and moves his head side to side. and can tell me the range to target. Same as the two eyed people can.
It's because plumbers and Electricians have a "trade union" here in the states. They have been able to make it so you cant be one without being in the Union. Even laws passed in some states that require it.
There are real advantages in it.
Dont need "equilivant" Wine recently is far more stable.
I even have Sony Vegas video editing software running under it.
I am sure that crappy VB6 sales app your company pays $6800.00 a year for will run fine..... Now will they support it or blame every bug in the thing on your Install....
If they can blame it on something else, they will..
Only in IT training. user training would be close to zero in cost, at minimum it will be identical to a Windows 7 migration.
users do not need to be retrained even on a un-configured Ubuntu install. Skilled IT configure it right? Everything will be where the users want it to be. Hell you can even install Internet Explorer under Wine for that internal website that is incompatible with everything.
IE8 open the file menu.... Quick... Oh wait, you have to know how because they took away the menu.
Office 2007, same thing. you have to click on the colorful orb. Something that is unintuitive.
Honestly, Companies should have taken the opportunity to switch to something that would have cost much less.
User coddling is what encourages that behavior.. The request should be forwarded to the users manager with a note, "Tell them to STOP wasting company time with this ridiculous crap."
but no, we get a 2 month training window to re-train all the employees on the use of the new Office version... Yet my suggestion to switch to Open Office was shot down with the "It will cost too much to re-train".. no wonder I quit and left that company.
And places like Comcast did not migrate to it until the spring of 2006.
Here we are looking at Migrating AWAY from windows 7. We have had nothing but trouble with customer control hardware and device programming. It's probably due to using the 64 bit version of Windows 7 but Dell does not give you the option to select a 32 bit version with new laptops..
WE are downgrading field PC's to XP and office PC's are upgrading to Ubuntu with crossover office for Vertical Windows legacy apps. We switched to Open Office 3 years ago when the BSA came knocking and the boss lost his mind over how the BSA fined us for something we were legit but did not have the documentation the BSA wanted.
Open source is the first choice here and closed source a last resort. It's really refreshing.
It's because they are submitted on time, but the editors are so fricking lazy that things will sit waiting for submission for a week at a time.
Honestly, it's not that hard to dig through the submissions, I have looked at the firehose and they are not getting 80 submissions a second.
Because in america, due to our size we can only fit two 325 pound Americans in it.
Therefore it's a two seater.