Re:Didn't Steve Jobs Speak at MacWorld about....
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Another Look At OS X
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Ever take a screenshot in a DVD player? you get a window with a green screen.
That means you're using a hardware decoder with a passthrough, most likely. Most, if not all, Windows based software decoders allow for screenshots. With hardware based, you'd need a special program to get the shot from the MPEG 2 card, instead of the video card.
Ah, but the point is that folks shouldn't HAVE to read the 'big websites' to get features that were promised to be in the main package.
It's kinda like Ford saying 'On our new SUV, the brakes ship disabled, by default, but anybody who finds 'How To Enable The Brakes' on our website can easily enable them themselves.
Fine for an enthusiast, a swift kick to the Jimmy for commercial software.
Don't forget, these are Mac users; the entire point of the OS is supposed to be that it goes; they don't have to think, they're artists, rebels, different, you know, the whole schtick.
This is, after all, the same computer company that pulled several years of profitablity simply by colouring their cases....
Boy, isn't that the truth? Too dumb to either a) doubleclick on InstallCensorware.exe or b) put a CD in the drive and click 'install' on the autoplay popup, but apparently more than qualified to influence state laws.
God bless America; they can use all the help they can get.
The Sun and IBM java mailing lists and newsgroups are full of complaints concerning threading problems on Linux, and I'm faced with the choice of moving the system to Solaris (something that I very much do not want to do).
Sorry, and I don't mean to be harsh, but that's just ignorant. If you're using Linux for Linux's sake, then shut up and live with the inherent problems.
Linux simply nowhere near ready for the enterprise. No, let me back up. The Linux kernel isn't too bad; GNU/Linux the system is. Too many 0.x released bits, written by college fanboys in their spare time, with an 'if it compiles, it's done' mentality. This is bad. Also, the entire 'incremental updates' idea behind Linux as it stands is anathema to proper methodology; 'if it doesn't work,' they cry, 'patch the code!' 'Yes,' you say, 'that's fine, except that all code changes need to go through substantial regression testing, and besides, it should work in the first place.' I personally lost all respect for Linux on the server when the cron daemon that shipped (and enabled by default) on Mandrake 7.x would run jobs scheduled for 4 AM at 10 AM. Or 4 PM. Or whenever it felt like it.
Guess what; if system A can't do what you need it to, but system B can, but you don't want to switch to B for undisclosed reasons, you have no business complaining about A's problems.
And as an aside, you need to get somebody in charge to yell at the programmers. The problem with Java is that it promotes sloppy coding, because people brought up in Java tend to assume that the language will correct all problems. And they don't understand concepts like proper memory management.
Feel free to get in touch if you want some more conversation on the joys of Linux vs quite a few other platforms in real deployment.
A good relationship isn't something you find; it finds you.
Y'ever been up at three AM, staring at the code on the screen, and the fucker just won't work? So you toddle off to bed, sleep, wake up, hit the can, go downstairs for a big ole' glass of water, go wandering past the computer, take a sidelong glance at the screen, and suddenly, out of nowhere, you see the solution? Three button presses later, it's all good.
That's what relationships are like.
If it's Stupid(tm), but it works, it isn't Stupid(tm).
That having been said, that model breaks down as soon as you can't freely update your processes.
No, it's true. You can easily render more than 30 completely photorealistic frames in a season. A season being four whole months, after all. It's only 2.5 frames a week.
Re:What they won't show, perhaps ever...
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Ah, but in America, people can't decide if a murderer should be put up in a nice hotel for the rest of his life, or killed.
In Saudi Ariba, which is a religious country, the Koran clearly states the death penalty is required for certain crimes.
Given some of the religious tripe I see on saturday and sunday mornings, I don't see anything wierd.
Yes, but isn't it amusing that in it's almost manic efforts to supress anything which smacks of Nazisim of fascisim, the German gov't acts begins to act in a fascist manner? Revisionist history, censorship, draconian laws....
But Exchange 2000's Anti Virus API is incomplete, and doesn't check incoming SMTP email, amoung other things. Really sucks.
But that having been said, unilaterally blocking.vbs will win you half the battle these days.
Also, make sure your client Win machines either a) don't have WSH installed, or b) the default action for VBS is to edit in notepad or something innocuous.
For the love of all that is decent and holy, you get a code shop that can afford a decent Quality Assurance process. Linux the kernel is fine, but too many things ship as part of a system that are there because they compile with nothing worse than warnings.
yesterday is not the same as today is not the same as tomorrow
Yeah, it always amused me that they made such a point of promoting Worf at the beginning of Generations; they guy puts in 9 seasons, which covered something like seven years of in-story time, goes from pilot to chief of security, but can't go up a lousy grade in rank. In any military I'm aware of, he'd have been let go for 'excessive time in grade.':-)
Remember the TNG episode where it turns out that key high-ranking federation officials had been taken over by little bug beasties? With their little bug beastie asses sticking out of the backs of necks? And how they managed to send a signal back to their homeworld, but were never seen or heard of again?
That's because too many people wrote in saying it was too dark, too sinister, not 'Trek' like. Lots of people like their 40 minutes of spoon-fed morality play and nothing bad happening. Everybody else is too busy preaching to the choir on Slashdot to actually write in and express some dissatisfaction to the people who can do something about it.
Bloody hell, I hate being called a liar. But seeing as how you're too damn lazy to look yourself, or you never learned how to use a search engine, I'll fill in the blanks for you.
Q169395 - PRB: Thread Safety for DAO/Jet 3.5
Amusing excerpt:
The Jet engine was originally written as a stand-alone desktop application, and originally conceived before thread-safety was as important as it is today. Jet 3.5 itself is not thread-safe.
Q222135 - ACC97: Using Microsoft Jet with IIS
Amusing excerpt:
The Microsoft Access ODBC driver (Jet ODBC driver) can have stability issues due to the version of Visual Basic for Applications that is invoked because the version is not thread safe. As a result, when multiple concurrent users make requests of a Microsoft Access database, unpredictable results may occur.
Look up the entires for further information.
Now admittedly, using SQL Server on the backend helps, but at that rate, you might as well code a VB front end instead of an access one.
If you do a search in the MS knowledge base, look for access, thread, multi, and a few other things, you'll dig up the MS KB articles that say "Don't use Access! It's unstable!"
It amuses me how the same people/companies that wouldn't use Word for creating a thousand page catalog, and wouldn't use Excel to write a corporate accounting system would, in fact, use Access to create an 'enterprise' database.
but I don't think I could find a job in the 2 weeks I would have left of my last paycheck.
Even if you have absolutely no intentions of leaving your company, you should be doing job interviews. At least two per year. Why? Many reasons. Practice. Keep up with what companies are looking for. Nod to the fact that the job market is volitile. You might find something better. You might find yourself in, well, your situation.
As an aside, last I checked, an IT worker can expect to switch jobs every 2.5 years.
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Ah, but the point is that folks shouldn't HAVE to read the 'big websites' to get features that were promised to be in the main package. It's kinda like Ford saying 'On our new SUV, the brakes ship disabled, by default, but anybody who finds 'How To Enable The Brakes' on our website can easily enable them themselves. Fine for an enthusiast, a swift kick to the Jimmy for commercial software. Don't forget, these are Mac users; the entire point of the OS is supposed to be that it goes; they don't have to think, they're artists, rebels, different, you know, the whole schtick. This is, after all, the same computer company that pulled several years of profitablity simply by colouring their cases....
At least it's 'in character.' :-)
Boy, isn't that the truth? Too dumb to either a) doubleclick on InstallCensorware.exe or b) put a CD in the drive and click 'install' on the autoplay popup, but apparently more than qualified to influence state laws. God bless America; they can use all the help they can get.
A good relationship isn't something you find; it finds you. Y'ever been up at three AM, staring at the code on the screen, and the fucker just won't work? So you toddle off to bed, sleep, wake up, hit the can, go downstairs for a big ole' glass of water, go wandering past the computer, take a sidelong glance at the screen, and suddenly, out of nowhere, you see the solution? Three button presses later, it's all good. That's what relationships are like.
If it's Stupid(tm), but it works, it isn't Stupid(tm). That having been said, that model breaks down as soon as you can't freely update your processes.
No, it's true. You can easily render more than 30 completely photorealistic frames in a season. A season being four whole months, after all. It's only 2.5 frames a week.
Ah, but in America, people can't decide if a murderer should be put up in a nice hotel for the rest of his life, or killed. In Saudi Ariba, which is a religious country, the Koran clearly states the death penalty is required for certain crimes. Given some of the religious tripe I see on saturday and sunday mornings, I don't see anything wierd.
Yes, but isn't it amusing that in it's almost manic efforts to supress anything which smacks of Nazisim of fascisim, the German gov't acts begins to act in a fascist manner? Revisionist history, censorship, draconian laws....
This Register story will tell all. Guarenteed goatsex free:l
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/17122.htm
Remember, it was The Consipiracy that coined the term 'paranoid' to discredit people who know the truth. :-)
Remember, kids, Xenu says: All your race are belong to us! You are on the way to supression. You have no chance to ascend, make your time!
But Exchange 2000's Anti Virus API is incomplete, and doesn't check incoming SMTP email, amoung other things. Really sucks. But that having been said, unilaterally blocking .vbs will win you half the battle these days.
Also, make sure your client Win machines either a) don't have WSH installed, or b) the default action for VBS is to edit in notepad or something innocuous.
For the love of all that is decent and holy, you get a code shop that can afford a decent Quality Assurance process. Linux the kernel is fine, but too many things ship as part of a system that are there because they compile with nothing worse than warnings.
Why do you think Liam Neeson's character in Episode 1 was named for one of those martial arts?
Remember the TNG episode where it turns out that key high-ranking federation officials had been taken over by little bug beasties? With their little bug beastie asses sticking out of the backs of necks? And how they managed to send a signal back to their homeworld, but were never seen or heard of again? That's because too many people wrote in saying it was too dark, too sinister, not 'Trek' like. Lots of people like their 40 minutes of spoon-fed morality play and nothing bad happening. Everybody else is too busy preaching to the choir on Slashdot to actually write in and express some dissatisfaction to the people who can do something about it.
Yeah, but Kirk wasn't the first captain, remember.
Amusing excerpt:
Q222135 - ACC97: Using Microsoft Jet with IIS
Amusing excerpt:
Look up the entires for further information. Now admittedly, using SQL Server on the backend helps, but at that rate, you might as well code a VB front end instead of an access one.
If you do a search in the MS knowledge base, look for access, thread, multi, and a few other things, you'll dig up the MS KB articles that say "Don't use Access! It's unstable!" It amuses me how the same people/companies that wouldn't use Word for creating a thousand page catalog, and wouldn't use Excel to write a corporate accounting system would, in fact, use Access to create an 'enterprise' database.
Gee, you think? I don't recall ever saying it was from Kenobi, or from anybody at all, for that matter.