I don't think Flash is going away any time soon. As someone who knows several web developers, I can tell you they love Flash because they don't have to code the page differently for different browsers.
The fact that it obfuscates your source code and animates things (makes them "flashy," if you will) are added bonuses that give the management and marketing departments a huge boner.
You throw your trash on the ground and not in the can in order to provide employment for those guys they hire to pick it up. Or to allow the justice system to work correctly, so all those weekend community service "volunteers" have something to do.
People who were around in the 50s & 60s tell me they used to pick up cans on the side of the road to pay for their gas.
So I have cable with a QAM tuner TV. The guy at Circuit City said I could get digital cable without having to rent a box from the cable company with it.
Turns out, the only digital channels I get are the ones that come in over the air.
Why do they make things so complicated? Are they trying to trick consumers to either over buy or under buy then have to shell out more money to right their original mistake?
It seems kinda sleazy to me.
I'll stick with OSX and Linux.
Yeah, as a Linux user, it's nice not to have things so complicated. I only have to choose between Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo, and-
Hmm, I'm having trouble remembering. But it will come back to me in a second!
Hard drives have "recommended" power-saving values specified in their firmware that say after x minutes of idle time, power me down! Ubuntu used these values.
It turns out these default values were way too low (1-5 minutes), so drives would power off and on very frequently, which shortened their lives.
All the encryption in the world won't stop you from getting a DMCA notice. In America, you can sue anyone for any reason. All they need to sue you is an IP address. So if they join a tracker and see your IP address, they'll send your ISP a note.
Most people find it easier to just pay their extortion fee than go to court.
Well, my complaint is about Flash video. It has much higher system requirements than wmv/quicktime/ogm/etc. It's just not ready for the computers people are using today.
Youtube works fine, yes, but that's just because it's low-res. Try streaming HD video on hulu to even a high-end system and it studders.
I've witnessed speedtest.net giving higher bandwidth rates than a customer had in available bandwidth. I wouldn't trust it; I use Speakeasy's test instead.
My biggest issue with this is domestic internet communication is semi-routinely routed through other countries and the eavesdropping program has no way to tell whether the 4th amendment is being violated.
Basically, the court just gave permission to the NSA to dragnet anything they want without a warrant so long as they can demonstrate there is a possibility that the communication was to or from a foreigner.
Or, since we control the intertubes, they could just route it through another country.
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But I like watching youtube vids...
I do too but I'd like them even more if they weren't Flash-based. Flash runs too slow on old computers.
I don't think Flash is going away any time soon. As someone who knows several web developers, I can tell you they love Flash because they don't have to code the page differently for different browsers.
The fact that it obfuscates your source code and animates things (makes them "flashy," if you will) are added bonuses that give the management and marketing departments a huge boner.
No, no, no...
You throw your trash on the ground and not in the can in order to provide employment for those guys they hire to pick it up. Or to allow the justice system to work correctly, so all those weekend community service "volunteers" have something to do.
People who were around in the 50s & 60s tell me they used to pick up cans on the side of the road to pay for their gas.
This was coming in on your cable box, or just over QAM?
So I have cable with a QAM tuner TV. The guy at Circuit City said I could get digital cable without having to rent a box from the cable company with it.
Turns out, the only digital channels I get are the ones that come in over the air.
Is/was this supposed to change on Feb 17?
In June, you'll find that there are many people who have not bought digital receivers for their televisions. June is the new February.
Actually, most TV stations are still going to do the change on Feb 17th as planned. The bill just gives them the option to delay out until June.
Disclaimer, I work for a cable provider, and ALL of our market affiliates have already told us they are going to change on the 17th as planned.
So basically this bill was a waste of time. Ten years from now, people will still be pulling out old TV's and wondering why they don't work.
So this bill wasn't to help us at all, it was to help TV stations that aren't DTV ready?
So what are you trying to criticize here? Are you trying to criticize Redhat because Canonical released Ubuntu?
Actually I was just trying to be funny.
LOL?
Fail?
Why do they make things so complicated? Are they trying to trick consumers to either over buy or under buy then have to shell out more money to right their original mistake?
It seems kinda sleazy to me.
I'll stick with OSX and Linux.
Yeah, as a Linux user, it's nice not to have things so complicated. I only have to choose between Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo, and-
Hmm, I'm having trouble remembering. But it will come back to me in a second!
Windows 7 Wall Street edition:
"The government is trying to stop you from giving yourself a big bonus. Cancel/Allow?"
I wonder how many Koreans actually use their 100Mbps of bandwidth as it is.
Do they have trouble with "bandwidth hogs" like Comcast claims to?
It's all paid for out of the sale price of the freed spectrum. And that price isn't changing.
That was the original agreement, but Obama's new "stimulus" bill will ensure that everyone will be paying for it.
Or maybe just our children, if they decide to pay for it "without raising taxes."
Now Colin Humphreys's team at the University of Cambridge has discovered a simple solution to the shrinkage problem.
Excellent news! Wait, what's this story about?
That's probably how he was able to get funding.
Tell me about it. My new phone has this "feature" and when I just got it, I didn't know about it and took a picture of a hot chick...
FAIL
Why not just require senators to read bills before they vote on them?
"Here's a new bill, Mr. Jones"
"800 pages? Shit, I'm not reading THAT!"
*DENIED*
Hard drives have "recommended" power-saving values specified in their firmware that say after x minutes of idle time, power me down! Ubuntu used these values.
It turns out these default values were way too low (1-5 minutes), so drives would power off and on very frequently, which shortened their lives.
In Utah, all you can get is Qwest or Comcast (or wireless ISPs, which I hear are too laggy for games).
Having a monopoly is great.
All the encryption in the world won't stop you from getting a DMCA notice. In America, you can sue anyone for any reason. All they need to sue you is an IP address. So if they join a tracker and see your IP address, they'll send your ISP a note.
Most people find it easier to just pay their extortion fee than go to court.
I've got a few customers I wish I could do that to.
Now you can!
Well, my complaint is about Flash video. It has much higher system requirements than wmv/quicktime/ogm/etc. It's just not ready for the computers people are using today.
Youtube works fine, yes, but that's just because it's low-res. Try streaming HD video on hulu to even a high-end system and it studders.
I've witnessed speedtest.net giving higher bandwidth rates than a customer had in available bandwidth. I wouldn't trust it; I use Speakeasy's test instead.
You are underestimating her.
Be the girl airhead, she'd likely have a boyfriend who could have helped her to configure the lappy as she wished.
My first impression is that the girl wanted to skip classes and was just looking for excuse. And she found.
A more likely story: she promises some geek she'll have sex with him if he fixes her laptop. He fixes it, and she decides she'd rather not.
Seriously, why don't people use encryption? I always assume someone is tapping my Internet connection if I don't use it.
Of couse, sometimes that doesn't matter.
Exhibit B
My biggest issue with this is domestic internet communication is semi-routinely routed through other countries and the eavesdropping program has no way to tell whether the 4th amendment is being violated.
Basically, the court just gave permission to the NSA to dragnet anything they want without a warrant so long as they can demonstrate there is a possibility that the communication was to or from a foreigner.
Or, since we control the intertubes, they could just route it through another country.
"Effects," perhaps?
While I am in favor of them getting trials, I don't think they should have the same rights as US citizens.
For example, I don't want to hear about Ahmed being found not guilty because someone didn't read him his Miranda rights.