I never noticed this. The crossover plugin version of flash doesn't have this problem, so I never tried.
Maybe I'll give it a whirl. If the synching problem is mostly due to contexts switching then the problem might 10x better with 2.6, but probably isn't fixed entirely. It's listed as a known problem in the flash plugin release notes.
My brother has a first generation iPod (not a mini) that has the same problem. It was out of warranty, so I attempeted to fix for him.
The only thing holding the surface mount jack onto the board was the solder connections, and it seemed to me that the solder was unusually soft. You could push it around pretty easily with a pair of sharp tweezers.
I can't say that I was impressed with the design and execution.
While building from source can be fun, and necessary sometimes, I
don't think it makes sense. You spend far too much time tweaking minor issues, and lose sight of major problems.
One problem that I've noticed is the fact the build from source people
tend to install things in a way that's completely different than
anyone else. This means that anyone who tried to maintain the machine
is hopelessly lost trying to figure out what the previous person did.
OTOH, When (e.g.) RedHat does something weird, the explanation and
fix is usually just a few google queries away.
Most (all?) package formats have source packages that can be modified
and rebuild in case you need some really special feature.
I think the problem is that even trivial decisions have become more demanding and time-consuming. especially if you're a compulsive optimizer. It's one thing to take your time deciding important issues like career and whether to have children, and quite another if you're just trying to buy laundry detergent...
I guess I don't buy this argument. I ye days of old, you couldn't even buy your detergent, you made it out of animal fat, and you had to decide when to make it, what to make it out of and how exactly to go about doing it.
We are faced by a huge miriad of decisions constantly that have very little to do with progress (what route I should take to work, where should I sit at a coffee shop, etc.).
If there is in fact a difference, it has less to do with choice and more to do with marketing. Certain types of marketing tries to make us feel guilty for choosing the wrong product. We're probably all a victim to this to more or less of a degree, and I can see how this can be detrimental.
Don't worry your pretty little head
on
The Paradox of Choice
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I saw this on a silly cable TV show and have been thinking a lot about it. Choice is nothing new, it's just that the types of choices we all have are changing. If you think about what career you should taken or where exactly you should live, the choices are absolutely staggering. These, for the most part aren't new developments, though more people have the ability to make a wider array of them.
What's interesting to me is that things that people have had to choose from for many number of years have special agents who specialize in making these choices; travel agents, real estate agents and career counselors. I expect that we'll see more and more of these agents in the future, though it's hard for me to imagine how a breakfast cereal agent would work exactly.
I understand that some people may feel overwhelmed by the breadth of choices presented to the average person, but it seems rather condescending to imply that you ought to give up your choices. The underlying attitude seems to be choice is bad for _you_, and I'll go ahead and keep reading the Economist and drinking my reserve cognac.
Concluding that choice is bad because it causes indecision is like concluding that the sun is bad because it causes sunburn.
After all, is freedom really slavery; ignorance, strength?
"Whether you have an authentic game or not, it is illegal to copy a Nintendo game from a cartridge or to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet."
This seems very debatable to me. Has anyone ever been procescuted for downloading something they own?
It's not illegal to make a tape that I can listen to in my car off a CD, so why would copying info from a cartidge be any different?
Is the cartidge form factor enough of a copy protection mechanism that they think it falls under the DMCA?
You're right, but I wonder how well a (presumably passieve) circulation system can really work. I guess I might be surprised. It just struck me as kind of ungainly and bizarre.
I few years ago my fiance was shopping for a new computer, which she wanted to buy from Dell. I told her that she shouldn't buy a P4 because the performance advatage was minimal and the Rumbus ram was expensive.
She bought the p4 anyway, because it came in black.
1) Legal wrangling always has some uncertainty involved. If SCO has a
10% chance of winning the case, they get $1 billion. A 2 Billion
billion dollar settlment times.1 is 200 Million, which is around
their market cap.
2) Let say that investors fall into 2 categories, people of the
opinion that SCO will win, and people who are of the opinion that SCO
will lose.
The first set buy SCO stock, thinking their investment
will pay of 10x. If they're wrong, they'll lose the investment. The
second class of investors have to short sell the stock, especially
since options don't seem to be available.
The second class of investors have a much worse situation. They can
double their money, but if SCO wins, they could lose a great deal of
money, in theory there's no limit. What's worse is that if there's a
legal victory, the stock is likely to spike, making the possibility of
cutting your losses before they get too bad difficult. The current
trend is also discouraging. The stock has been slowly gaining value
over the months. This would mean a short seller will have to keep
pumping money into their initial investment, waiting for the moment
when SCO's stock crashes.
If you fall into the second camp, I think the risk is just to vast and the payout too far away for people to jump on.
OTOH, buying puts looks like a much better deal, but they don't seem
to be availible.
Too bad the 9/11 terrorists didn't fly the planes into some movie studio buildings or the Redmond campus. They would have actually done something useful for the entire world.
..but you probably need to know somebody to get the job.
I found that one interesting because I rember hearing a story about how right after 9/11/2001 skycaps had it bad because they _didn't_ get a salary, and no longer had a source of tips.
It would have been a more enjoyable article if it wasn't for the shrill sound
of an axe grinding in my ears the whole time I was reading it.
Seriously, since when is it new that there a cushy, overpaid jobs out
there? For many, you need to get lucky or know someone to get them,
for others, you need to undergo a long training program followed by
many years of totem pole climbing.
This story has nothing to do with patents,(as far as I can tell anyway). The word patent isn't even mentioned in the story, and proprietary != patented.
It would appear that this is about X10 hiring these people to do pop unders, and then not paying them. Unfortunately it's impossible to say what the real story is from this very short article.
My ex gave me a fountain pen that she claimed was standard issue in schools in Geneva (possibly in France, though).
They were plastic ended with stainless caps and came in a bunch of colors. I can't seem to find them anywhere in the US or the web. I think they may be Penguin, but I'm really not sure.
Anyway it was a nice pen and tough as nails. I finally killed it when I smashed it with a rocking chair.
Anyone have any info on these things?
I also had another fancy pen (Caran d'Ache), but it wore out pretty quickly. I don't think it was meant to be carried around like I did.
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Tried the new plugin on FC2 using firefox, and RH9 under mozilla 1.6 and it still seems broken to me.
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The flash plugin under crossover plugin works fine, but the A/V sync in the new plugin is still messed up.
E.g.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail104.
OOOoo! Look at me! I use the metric system!
I only know how to divide by ten!
Hmm. Interesting.
I never noticed this. The crossover plugin version of flash doesn't have this problem, so I never tried.
Maybe I'll give it a whirl. If the synching problem is mostly due to contexts switching then the problem might 10x better with 2.6, but probably isn't fixed entirely. It's listed as a known problem in the flash plugin release notes.
How would can we get Linux to surpase Windows as the number one OS?
How can we get those SCO guys to lay off?
What can we do to make software more stable?
How can we stop famine, hunger and war?
My brother has a first generation iPod (not a mini) that has the same problem. It was out of warranty, so I attempeted to fix for him.
The only thing holding the surface mount jack onto the board was the solder connections, and it seemed to me that the solder was unusually soft. You could push it around pretty easily with a pair of sharp tweezers.
I can't say that I was impressed with the design and execution.
This image beautifully illustrates the multilayered approach the team devised to fend off the excess heat while the spacecraft is near Mercury
Are we looking a the same picture?
This is not an informative image.
It could just as well be Fruit Fucker Prime with a tarp over it.
Impressive technology. Abysmal photography.
While building from source can be fun, and necessary sometimes, I don't think it makes sense. You spend far too much time tweaking minor issues, and lose sight of major problems.
One problem that I've noticed is the fact the build from source people tend to install things in a way that's completely different than anyone else. This means that anyone who tried to maintain the machine is hopelessly lost trying to figure out what the previous person did. OTOH, When (e.g.) RedHat does something weird, the explanation and fix is usually just a few google queries away.
Most (all?) package formats have source packages that can be modified and rebuild in case you need some really special feature.
I think the problem is that even trivial decisions have become more demanding and time-consuming. especially if you're a compulsive optimizer. It's one thing to take your time deciding important issues like career and whether to have children, and quite another if you're just trying to buy laundry detergent...
I guess I don't buy this argument. I ye days of old, you couldn't even buy your detergent, you made it out of animal fat, and you had to decide when to make it, what to make it out of and how exactly to go about doing it.
We are faced by a huge miriad of decisions constantly that have very little to do with progress (what route I should take to work, where should I sit at a coffee shop, etc.).
If there is in fact a difference, it has less to do with choice and more to do with marketing. Certain types of marketing tries to make us feel guilty for choosing the wrong product. We're probably all a victim to this to more or less of a degree, and I can see how this can be detrimental.
I saw this on a silly cable TV show and have been thinking a lot about it. Choice is nothing new, it's just that the types of choices we all have are changing. If you think about what career you should taken or where exactly you should live, the choices are absolutely staggering. These, for the most part aren't new developments, though more people have the ability to make a wider array of them.
What's interesting to me is that things that people have had to choose from for many number of years have special agents who specialize in making these choices; travel agents, real estate agents and career counselors. I expect that we'll see more and more of these agents in the future, though it's hard for me to imagine how a breakfast cereal agent would work exactly.
I understand that some people may feel overwhelmed by the breadth of choices presented to the average person, but it seems rather condescending to imply that you ought to give up your choices. The underlying attitude seems to be choice is bad for _you_, and I'll go ahead and keep reading the Economist and drinking my reserve cognac.
Concluding that choice is bad because it causes indecision is like concluding that the sun is bad because it causes sunburn.
After all, is freedom really slavery; ignorance, strength?
I thought about that, and decided that the ruling might have meant somthing else, but it looks like you're right, the case is very relavent.
It's still somewhat unclear whether _downloading_ something you own is illegal, but there isn't a whole lot of wiggle room there.
I'd forgotten how bad the MP3.com ruling was.
"Whether you have an authentic game or not, it is illegal to copy a Nintendo game from a cartridge or to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet."
This seems very debatable to me. Has anyone ever been procescuted for downloading something they own?
It's not illegal to make a tape that I can listen to in my car off a CD, so why would copying info from a cartidge be any different?
Is the cartidge form factor enough of a copy protection mechanism that they think it falls under the DMCA?
Collusion to set prices is illegal.
If you don't like it, why not talk to your representative and/or senator?
It takes a whole damn article and a bunch of charts and hand waving to justify why it's a good move.
That's a sign of a product that won't sell.
You're right, but I wonder how well a (presumably passieve) circulation system can really work. I guess I might be surprised. It just struck me as kind of ungainly and bizarre.
nature didn't provide us with some kind of fluid that automatically circulates throughout our body to distribute warmth and nutrients.
I few years ago my fiance was shopping for a new computer, which she wanted to buy from Dell. I told her that she shouldn't buy a P4 because the performance advatage was minimal and the Rumbus ram was expensive.
She bought the p4 anyway, because it came in black.
1) Legal wrangling always has some uncertainty involved. If SCO has a 10% chance of winning the case, they get $1 billion. A 2 Billion billion dollar settlment times .1 is 200 Million, which is around
their market cap.
2) Let say that investors fall into 2 categories, people of the opinion that SCO will win, and people who are of the opinion that SCO will lose.
The first set buy SCO stock, thinking their investment will pay of 10x. If they're wrong, they'll lose the investment. The second class of investors have to short sell the stock, especially since options don't seem to be available.
The second class of investors have a much worse situation. They can double their money, but if SCO wins, they could lose a great deal of money, in theory there's no limit. What's worse is that if there's a legal victory, the stock is likely to spike, making the possibility of cutting your losses before they get too bad difficult. The current trend is also discouraging. The stock has been slowly gaining value over the months. This would mean a short seller will have to keep pumping money into their initial investment, waiting for the moment when SCO's stock crashes.
If you fall into the second camp, I think the risk is just to vast and the payout too far away for people to jump on.
OTOH, buying puts looks like a much better deal, but they don't seem to be availible.
To see fashion in your own time, though, requires a conscious effort.
I read this statement, and I thought to myself, "Oh shit, I'm reading a blog."
Since people seem to object to the name "Moore's law " since it isn't really a law, perhaps we should rename it to "Moore's Curse."
Moore's Curse (n):
1) The tendency for technology pundits to be proven wrong again and again.
2) The fact that your fancy computer will be little better than a door stop in 6 months.
Too bad the 9/11 terrorists didn't fly the planes into some movie studio buildings or the Redmond campus. They would have actually done something useful for the entire world.
Whoa!
Somebody get this AC some caffine.
..but you probably need to know somebody to get the job.
I found that one interesting because I rember hearing a story about how right after 9/11/2001 skycaps had it bad because they _didn't_ get a salary, and no longer had a source of tips.
Seriously, since when is it new that there a cushy, overpaid jobs out there? For many, you need to get lucky or know someone to get them, for others, you need to undergo a long training program followed by many years of totem pole climbing.
This story has nothing to do with patents,(as far as I can tell anyway). The word patent isn't even mentioned in the story, and proprietary != patented.
It would appear that this is about X10 hiring these people to do pop unders, and then not paying them. Unfortunately it's impossible to say what the real
story is from this very short article.
Zepher made it trivial to do this by modifying a config file. I implemented it myself after hearing about a friend who did the same thing.
My ex gave me a fountain pen that she claimed was standard issue in schools in Geneva (possibly in France, though).
They were plastic ended with stainless caps and came in a bunch of colors. I can't seem to find them anywhere in the US or the web. I think they may be Penguin, but I'm really not sure.
Anyway it was a nice pen and tough as nails. I finally killed it when I smashed it with a rocking chair.
Anyone have any info on these things?
I also had another fancy pen (Caran d'Ache), but it wore out pretty quickly. I don't think it was meant to be carried around like I did.