On a back up USB drive to run a script to back up the host automatically.
Why on earth would that be a function of the usb drive and not the something running on the machine -- unless your intention is to 'backup' your friends machines or something -- in other words why wouldn't you implement that as a script on the machine that runs when a specific usb devices are connected to the machine?
Your idea just sounds like you're seeing nails because of the hammer in your hand...
This manual may not be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or converted to any electronic or machine-readable form in whole or in part without written approval from Adobe Systems Incorporated.
That is from the SWF spec (I wonder if I just violated that rule): "completely open" is not the word I'd use.
Now, I may not be totally on top of the Flash situation, but last time I looked RTMP was still closed just like the Sorenson-Spark codec. If this is still the case then calling swf open is similar to saying that MS Office supports ODF -- technically true but pretty misleading.
Firefox, the laptop killer: 200 CPU hogging bugs [slashdot.org].
Either you don't know how bug databases work or you're just using the numbers to push an agenda. The important idea to take home here is: The number of reported bugs is a really poor indicator of anything.
The above is the only thing needed to make your statement useless, but I can point some other problems with it as well: Mozilla has ~50 different products in their bugzilla, you searched them all (including things like websites). Also, the vast majority of the bugs in your list are unconfirmed (from experience I can tell you most of those don't have enough info to reproduce or even to mark them duplicates: I'm guessing there are a _lot_ of scrolling related reports that are actually the same bug).
Note that I'm not saying that Firefox is efficient or that it doesn't have major problems with e.g. scrolling. I'm telling you to stop bringing that "200 CPU hogging bugs" figure up whenever there is a browser discussion: it has no meaning. Either do your homework and find the actual important bugs or shut up.
Unless you have overwritten the area on the physical disk that contained the data, multiple times, the data can still be recovered.
This myth always comes up... Could you please provide a reference for this claim (recovery after overwriting)? I and others have asked for one many, many times and so far I've never seen an even remotely credible answer.
You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better about yourself. In the mean time I'll keep voicemail disabled and won't connect this decision to my 'importance' in any way.
Amen. Continuing on the same path, changing browser window width below 800 is probably borderline illegal: most websites aren't designed to work like that.
ah... now I got it: the DGPS comment and the Samsung innov8 comment weren't related. Makes more sense now, I withdraw my "I don't think DGPS means what you think it means" comment, otherwise my comment stands.
I don't think DGPS means what you think it means. It's not really used in consumer devices and it certainly will never help you in situations where you do not have a signal. DGPS mostly helps with ionospheric errors and Walmarts aren't _that_ big...
I'm guessing you're thinking of A-GPS which does help in low signal environments and is used in consumer devices. I'm still quite surprised to hear a sirf III working reliably indoors -- I've never seen that happening.
Also, surveyors using GPS in caves? Do you have a link for that? I've never heard of it before, and I have to say it sounds pretty improbable.
I'm not a Windows user so I've never used Foxit. That said, your complaints sound somehow wrong to me.
First, you say "Foxit isn't even a big target for black hat hackers" like it's a bad thing. Here's some news for you: Some of us utterly dislike the software monoculture companies like Adobe and Microsoft are selling, partly because it creates big targets for black hats...
Second, you didn't comment on the bloat accusations. It's great Adobe does audits, but wouldn't it be great if they didn't have to audit source code that builds into a 180MB monster?
I'm sure they have a client demanding each one of those 'features', but why does everyone on the planet need to have all those feature installed and enabled as well? It's a balance between (perceived) ease-of-use and security, and I think I know which side Adobe is leaning on.
It's not a js bug, it's a bug in Adobe code that can be exploited because they've included a scripting language.
In my opinion javascript is a nice, flexible Java-like language that has gotten a really bad reputation to very little fault of its own. If you really think there is something we need to fix in javascript especially, maybe you should be more specific?
You do understand that quarterly earnings come in 2 parts right?... If you don't like Apple's PR about their earnings, you are more than free to read the 10Q and go over the details yourself.
Please guys, read my original post. I understand how earnings reports work and I'm not really complaining about Apple: the only reasons for even mentioning the company were a) they are exceptionally good at writing these reports and b) their reports seem to get quoted without context more often than most companies. I guess the latter could be just perception though.
The thing I actually complained about was fanboys and media that use the report soundbytes without applying common sense. IANAAC originally made a valid question about iPhone sales, a question about a really volatile market that in my opinion shouldn't be answered in one syllable. Still, an AC responded saying that iPhone sales are fine: sales are up 123%. How insightful.
If you read my posts you'll see I never said Apple should use something else -- I'm saying people should understand that Apple will highlight the things that make it look good (and will be silent when the same figure is not a good one), and just repeating those figures may lead you to not see the big picture (like the fact that iPhone 3G sold insanely well but the sales are dropping faster than with e.g. Nokia models). Let's just wait until autumn and see how prominently the same percentage is shown on the report then...
I already said comparing to a year back is fine, the problem is that no-one seems to wonder why Apple chose that particular number to highlight in their report... This is definitely not a "random metric", I'm sure Apple carefully chose it and I'm willing to bet real money that the report six months from now will not highlight this same metric (quarterly sales compared to previous year) because then they would be comparing to iphone 3G launch figures.
What I'm asking for is a bit more analysis before saying things like "Oh no, iphone sales haven't dropped, they have grown 123%".
Comparing to a year ago is fine, but you know what they say about statistics... Let me tweak your comment just a bit (it's still factually correct):
Sold 3.79 million last quarter; a 45% drop in two quarters.
Not nearly as impressive anymore, is it? I always get suspicious when I see a specific percentage figures used like Apple often do in their result announcements... It's childishly easy to find a single large figure that looks good (especially in a market like this) and the media and bloggers seem to all happily repeat the same number over and over: 123% growth! Wow, 123%!
The problem here is not in the OS, as others have pointed out pretty well any OS would allow this, the problem is "PEBKAC"
Well, I've setup Debian for family members, and from that experience I'd like to say you may be wrong. On windows I have to let them install applications from random places, because that's the only way to get software on that platform. On debian I show them "Add/Remove Applications"... It is very easy for even non-experts to understand that software from "Add/Remove" is good, but software from the web is possibly a bad idea.
You say the problem is not in the OS, I say the problem can be seriously mitigated by the operating system (distribution) design. The same people who had very little ability to spot malware on windows never end up in that same problem on Debian.
Now, I'm sure someone will start the old "so what will the average user do when the app is not in the repository? huh? huh?" at this point. IMO, the answer is and always has been "they won't use the app then or will wait for an admin to install it". That is the price you pay for convenience and security.
I didn't get the same impression from the comments at all, so decided to look closer:
You guys are all way too busy arguing about how the library is not GPL.
"all"... I found no posts saying this. I did see two posts complaining about binary-only, but there are other possible reasons for that and.
None of you have the right to dictate which license software you had no part in writing should be distributed.
Again, finding it hard to locate the posts this refers to.
You have to... get over the illusion that the GPL somehow removes rights from the original author.
Wow. where does this come from? I have no idea.
I just love how so many of you automatically assume that they must have stolen GPL code in there.
Zero, it seems. There was one guy who would find it funny if there was GPL code in there.
For all the groupthink accusations you spouted, the only evidence of groupthink that I see here is your moderation: +5 for whining based on nothing at all?
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Why on earth would that be a function of the usb drive and not the something running on the machine -- unless your intention is to 'backup' your friends machines or something -- in other words why wouldn't you implement that as a script on the machine that runs when a specific usb devices are connected to the machine?
Your idea just sounds like you're seeing nails because of the hammer in your hand...
Lets hear them, please.
That is from the SWF spec (I wonder if I just violated that rule): "completely open" is not the word I'd use.
Now, I may not be totally on top of the Flash situation, but last time I looked RTMP was still closed just like the Sorenson-Spark codec. If this is still the case then calling swf open is similar to saying that MS Office supports ODF -- technically true but pretty misleading.
...for some values of "open" and "standard".
Either you don't know how bug databases work or you're just using the numbers to push an agenda. The important idea to take home here is: The number of reported bugs is a really poor indicator of anything.
The above is the only thing needed to make your statement useless, but I can point some other problems with it as well: Mozilla has ~50 different products in their bugzilla, you searched them all (including things like websites). Also, the vast majority of the bugs in your list are unconfirmed (from experience I can tell you most of those don't have enough info to reproduce or even to mark them duplicates: I'm guessing there are a _lot_ of scrolling related reports that are actually the same bug).
Note that I'm not saying that Firefox is efficient or that it doesn't have major problems with e.g. scrolling. I'm telling you to stop bringing that "200 CPU hogging bugs" figure up whenever there is a browser discussion: it has no meaning. Either do your homework and find the actual important bugs or shut up.
This myth always comes up... Could you please provide a reference for this claim (recovery after overwriting)? I and others have asked for one many, many times and so far I've never seen an even remotely credible answer.
My math says the fine is way more than 6 last months profit. How is that tiny?
You keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better about yourself. In the mean time I'll keep voicemail disabled and won't connect this decision to my 'importance' in any way.
Before getting all worked up about it, go to ubuntu.com or wikipedia and see what term is used first to describe Ubuntu.
Calling a poll sample of one thousand "very, very small" makes you yourself look a bit ignorant about statistics...
You could at least read the article you link to:
In other words, not GPS at all. Any other links?
Amen. Continuing on the same path, changing browser window width below 800 is probably borderline illegal: most websites aren't designed to work like that.
ah... now I got it: the DGPS comment and the Samsung innov8 comment weren't related. Makes more sense now, I withdraw my "I don't think DGPS means what you think it means" comment, otherwise my comment stands.
I don't think DGPS means what you think it means. It's not really used in consumer devices and it certainly will never help you in situations where you do not have a signal. DGPS mostly helps with ionospheric errors and Walmarts aren't _that_ big...
I'm guessing you're thinking of A-GPS which does help in low signal environments and is used in consumer devices. I'm still quite surprised to hear a sirf III working reliably indoors -- I've never seen that happening.
Also, surveyors using GPS in caves? Do you have a link for that? I've never heard of it before, and I have to say it sounds pretty improbable.
I'm not a Windows user so I've never used Foxit. That said, your complaints sound somehow wrong to me.
First, you say "Foxit isn't even a big target for black hat hackers" like it's a bad thing. Here's some news for you: Some of us utterly dislike the software monoculture companies like Adobe and Microsoft are selling, partly because it creates big targets for black hats...
Second, you didn't comment on the bloat accusations. It's great Adobe does audits, but wouldn't it be great if they didn't have to audit source code that builds into a 180MB monster?
I'm sure they have a client demanding each one of those 'features', but why does everyone on the planet need to have all those feature installed and enabled as well? It's a balance between (perceived) ease-of-use and security, and I think I know which side Adobe is leaning on.
It's not a js bug, it's a bug in Adobe code that can be exploited because they've included a scripting language.
In my opinion javascript is a nice, flexible Java-like language that has gotten a really bad reputation to very little fault of its own. If you really think there is something we need to fix in javascript especially, maybe you should be more specific?
That's a new mount option, right? I'll start using that right away, I don't want my filesystems wasting time updating those shark stamps on my files.
Please guys, read my original post. I understand how earnings reports work and I'm not really complaining about Apple: the only reasons for even mentioning the company were a) they are exceptionally good at writing these reports and b) their reports seem to get quoted without context more often than most companies. I guess the latter could be just perception though.
The thing I actually complained about was fanboys and media that use the report soundbytes without applying common sense. IANAAC originally made a valid question about iPhone sales, a question about a really volatile market that in my opinion shouldn't be answered in one syllable. Still, an AC responded saying that iPhone sales are fine: sales are up 123%. How insightful.
If you read my posts you'll see I never said Apple should use something else -- I'm saying people should understand that Apple will highlight the things that make it look good (and will be silent when the same figure is not a good one), and just repeating those figures may lead you to not see the big picture (like the fact that iPhone 3G sold insanely well but the sales are dropping faster than with e.g. Nokia models). Let's just wait until autumn and see how prominently the same percentage is shown on the report then...
I already said comparing to a year back is fine, the problem is that no-one seems to wonder why Apple chose that particular number to highlight in their report... This is definitely not a "random metric", I'm sure Apple carefully chose it and I'm willing to bet real money that the report six months from now will not highlight this same metric (quarterly sales compared to previous year) because then they would be comparing to iphone 3G launch figures.
What I'm asking for is a bit more analysis before saying things like "Oh no, iphone sales haven't dropped, they have grown 123%".
Comparing to a year ago is fine, but you know what they say about statistics... Let me tweak your comment just a bit (it's still factually correct):
Not nearly as impressive anymore, is it? I always get suspicious when I see a specific percentage figures used like Apple often do in their result announcements... It's childishly easy to find a single large figure that looks good (especially in a market like this) and the media and bloggers seem to all happily repeat the same number over and over: 123% growth! Wow, 123%!
Sure, there is a checkbox... and if you try it in current Ubuntu release:
> ** (gnome-session-properties:27389): DEBUG:
> Session saving is not implemented yet
It's still half-broken, AFAIK.
Version list for those and a few other apps: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/allpackages?format=txt.gz
This was just classic. Urkki, you just lost the argument fair and square.
Well, I've setup Debian for family members, and from that experience I'd like to say you may be wrong. On windows I have to let them install applications from random places, because that's the only way to get software on that platform. On debian I show them "Add/Remove Applications"... It is very easy for even non-experts to understand that software from "Add/Remove" is good, but software from the web is possibly a bad idea.
You say the problem is not in the OS, I say the problem can be seriously mitigated by the operating system (distribution) design. The same people who had very little ability to spot malware on windows never end up in that same problem on Debian.
Now, I'm sure someone will start the old "so what will the average user do when the app is not in the repository? huh? huh?" at this point. IMO, the answer is and always has been "they won't use the app then or will wait for an admin to install it". That is the price you pay for convenience and security.
I didn't get the same impression from the comments at all, so decided to look closer:
"all"... I found no posts saying this. I did see two posts complaining about binary-only, but there are other possible reasons for that and.
Again, finding it hard to locate the posts this refers to.
Wow. where does this come from? I have no idea.
Zero, it seems. There was one guy who would find it funny if there was GPL code in there.
For all the groupthink accusations you spouted, the only evidence of groupthink that I see here is your moderation: +5 for whining based on nothing at all?