Maybe Europe just won't get as many versions in the future, now.
BTW, I do support the notion of requiring ALL manufacturers to offer a full standardized warranty, although I think it should be 3 years. Still, 2 years is adequate. First we need to get rid of almost all the Republicans and half the Democrats and then maybe we can improve this USA.
So the superintendent wants her to violate one rule (and risk losing her account) just to see if she is violating another rule. So we must assume this superintendent believes rule violations are unimportant.
I'm not surprised, though. Schools systems are flooded in their management layer with lots of failed politicians that couldn't make it in the real world of manipulating adults, and so have to find a place where there are weaker people to manipulate (e.g. children). That's why we see so many jerks running school systems. In this case, one made the mistake of taking on an adult.
Of course as a guest of a website, I don't have the access rights or authority to make it a stupid site. Ultimately, the owner/webmaster makes those decisions. I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make him drink.
Splash screens are just stupid. It's easily doable with Javascript. Just load the splash as a background and default all the other nodes off-screen. Then when the JS is done loading, move the other nodes on-screen. And this is a chance to do some silly thing like sliding them into place from the far side away from them. There's probably a way to do it without JS to some extent.
HTML5 isn't even required. Firefox can do videos without it. Sure, it's a little more work for the webmaster. But I've watched videos that "just work" way back on FF 2.0. I don't know hoe much effort the webmaster did to make that work, and maybe it was a lot. But it did work. And there was sound, too. And I didn't install any plugin.
Using Flash for navigation is the utmost of webmaster stupidity.
The fact that Adobe is dropping Linux support for Flash may really indicate the reduced importance of Flash, and the fact that they have another means to do things through Chrome, so they have at least some excuse to give to Linux users (however few they may be). It is now more widely know as unneeded for video (it never was needed, but lots of people just didn't have a clue without some tool to do it for them and the early tools used Flash).
If someone wants to implement capabilities as a monolithic system, then so be it. Their time, their decision. Their project, their decision. What I am saying is that if you WANT plugins, a protocol is a better way to do it than an API. If you do NOT want plugins, then don't do a plugin API or protocol. Duh!
I tried that. It might well work for some people. But I found it hard to administer. OTOH, it's foundation, rsync, is an excellent way to do backups (with my own script I wrote that does things the way I find to be easier).
How long does it take to restore 2TB of data stored on TAPES that are affordable for SOHO and consumer users, counting at least 2 sets of tapes for proper backup rotation?
... with 2 extra hard drives for each one to be backed up. And if you get the external type and one of those drive bay devices that lets you plug externals in, your backup is ready to use immediately (no need to wait days for your stack of DVDs or DATs to be restored, or hours to copy from USB).
Well, for VIDEOs you don't need flash. Never did. Of course SOME websites intentionally obfuscated the videos to force you to decode them in flash, but that's not REAL VIDEO. REAL VIDEO has worked for ages without any need for flash. Flash was made to overcome failures of Microsoft IE to deal with video.
The day it reads "Adobe kills Flash" I'll pop the champagne, "for Linux" just means support is going backwards for Linux. No matter how much you hate Flash the effect will be "That doesn't work on Linux/Firefox, use Windows/Chrome." because despite it being supported I bet once Flash 12 comes out most sites will reply "your version of flash is not supported, please upgrade" anyway. Anyone know if this support will be in Chromium too or if it's another Chrome-only feature like H.264?
Actually, the communication should go in the other direction and say "Use Web Standards!". Then their videos will work on all modern browsers.
You don't need either to do what the vast majority do with Flash, which is play videos (which Firefox has been able to do without either of those for at least the past 10 versions). I don't have Flash or Java working in my browser (which, BTW, is just a little over a year old, now), and videos set up by smarter webmasters work fine (yeah, HTML5 standardizes it in a distinct way, but it's also doable the old object way).
Video has been natively supported by Firefox for at least the past 10 versions or more. And in the past 8 versions it used web standards to do so. What else is Flash good for that an app can't do better?
Apparently, from commentary I've read in a number of places (no, I did not actually analyze the API myself), it is a poorly designed API. Or maybe this is the overlooked gem amongst the sewage of junk APIs being made these days.
Protocols actually work better than APIs... at least once you get someone designing it that has a brain. And protocols are better positioned because they make it easy to separate processes to improve security and isolate bugs to avoid more overwhelming crashes (if the plugin is buggy, then just the plugin crashes instead of the whole application... just code the application to deal with an unexpected closure of the communication channel). THIS is one of the IMPORTANT reasons I no longer bother to even look at new APIs anymore. APIs are so 2nd millennium, anyway. Protocols (with tiny tweaks) can work over networks as well as Unix namespace sockets (the tweak is that you get more information via named sockets, like the userid of the other process... and hence better security). Or the main application process can launch a process to run the plugin with and use a socket pair to communicate. And protocols are more portable (just use network byte order if passing data in binary form when you need to avoid XML or JSON processing overhead).
... I wasn't using that piece of crap called Flash, anyway. I'm glad it is finally going away and I will have an even better excuse to tell webmasters to start using Web Standards.
Just wait until your research grant funding account gets drained and sent to Nigeria so they can buy shit off the internet, pay their bills, have cybersex with their girlfriends, play online games (they hacked in to), and read the news about research grants being lost due to hacker breakins.
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Maybe Europe just won't get as many versions in the future, now.
BTW, I do support the notion of requiring ALL manufacturers to offer a full standardized warranty, although I think it should be 3 years. Still, 2 years is adequate. First we need to get rid of almost all the Republicans and half the Democrats and then maybe we can improve this USA.
I just bought a no-contract unlocked phone, you insensitive clod.
She obviously did in this case because someone complained about a picture she posted on hers. But sure, in other cases, that question would apply.
So the superintendent wants her to violate one rule (and risk losing her account) just to see if she is violating another rule. So we must assume this superintendent believes rule violations are unimportant.
I'm not surprised, though. Schools systems are flooded in their management layer with lots of failed politicians that couldn't make it in the real world of manipulating adults, and so have to find a place where there are weaker people to manipulate (e.g. children). That's why we see so many jerks running school systems. In this case, one made the mistake of taking on an adult.
Of course as a guest of a website, I don't have the access rights or authority to make it a stupid site. Ultimately, the owner/webmaster makes those decisions. I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make him drink.
Splash screens are just stupid. It's easily doable with Javascript. Just load the splash as a background and default all the other nodes off-screen. Then when the JS is done loading, move the other nodes on-screen. And this is a chance to do some silly thing like sliding them into place from the far side away from them. There's probably a way to do it without JS to some extent.
HTML5 isn't even required. Firefox can do videos without it. Sure, it's a little more work for the webmaster. But I've watched videos that "just work" way back on FF 2.0. I don't know hoe much effort the webmaster did to make that work, and maybe it was a lot. But it did work. And there was sound, too. And I didn't install any plugin.
Using Flash for navigation is the utmost of webmaster stupidity.
The fact that Adobe is dropping Linux support for Flash may really indicate the reduced importance of Flash, and the fact that they have another means to do things through Chrome, so they have at least some excuse to give to Linux users (however few they may be). It is now more widely know as unneeded for video (it never was needed, but lots of people just didn't have a clue without some tool to do it for them and the early tools used Flash).
I suggest the null plugin. It's what I use. Doesn't crash.
If someone wants to implement capabilities as a monolithic system, then so be it. Their time, their decision. Their project, their decision. What I am saying is that if you WANT plugins, a protocol is a better way to do it than an API. If you do NOT want plugins, then don't do a plugin API or protocol. Duh!
... offering a free, perpetual license ...
I won't believe it until I see that they fully assign the whole patent to the EFF.
I tried that. It might well work for some people. But I found it hard to administer. OTOH, it's foundation, rsync, is an excellent way to do backups (with my own script I wrote that does things the way I find to be easier).
How long does it take to restore 2TB of data stored on TAPES that are affordable for SOHO and consumer users, counting at least 2 sets of tapes for proper backup rotation?
... with 2 extra hard drives for each one to be backed up. And if you get the external type and one of those drive bay devices that lets you plug externals in, your backup is ready to use immediately (no need to wait days for your stack of DVDs or DATs to be restored, or hours to copy from USB).
Damn! You mean I still have to wait 5 more years?
Why not download the 720p or even the 1080p videos when the intent is to use mplayer. I know mplayer can handle them because I've done it.
Well, for VIDEOs you don't need flash. Never did. Of course SOME websites intentionally obfuscated the videos to force you to decode them in flash, but that's not REAL VIDEO. REAL VIDEO has worked for ages without any need for flash. Flash was made to overcome failures of Microsoft IE to deal with video.
Ah ha! Proof! ... that my statcounter blocker actually WORKS! BTW, it only works on Linux though I think someone is trying to port it to BSD.
Oh, you mean the ones that have no clue how to use and conform to Web Standards, and just build a mashup with junkware?
The day it reads "Adobe kills Flash" I'll pop the champagne, "for Linux" just means support is going backwards for Linux. No matter how much you hate Flash the effect will be "That doesn't work on Linux/Firefox, use Windows/Chrome." because despite it being supported I bet once Flash 12 comes out most sites will reply "your version of flash is not supported, please upgrade" anyway. Anyone know if this support will be in Chromium too or if it's another Chrome-only feature like H.264?
Actually, the communication should go in the other direction and say "Use Web Standards!". Then their videos will work on all modern browsers.
"We don't need no steenkin Flash!"
You don't need either to do what the vast majority do with Flash, which is play videos (which Firefox has been able to do without either of those for at least the past 10 versions). I don't have Flash or Java working in my browser (which, BTW, is just a little over a year old, now), and videos set up by smarter webmasters work fine (yeah, HTML5 standardizes it in a distinct way, but it's also doable the old object way).
OH GAWD NO!!! ... let it DIE! ... bury IT! ... pour concrete over the grave site!
Video has been natively supported by Firefox for at least the past 10 versions or more. And in the past 8 versions it used web standards to do so. What else is Flash good for that an app can't do better?
Apparently, from commentary I've read in a number of places (no, I did not actually analyze the API myself), it is a poorly designed API. Or maybe this is the overlooked gem amongst the sewage of junk APIs being made these days.
Protocols actually work better than APIs ... at least once you get someone designing it that has a brain. And protocols are better positioned because they make it easy to separate processes to improve security and isolate bugs to avoid more overwhelming crashes (if the plugin is buggy, then just the plugin crashes instead of the whole application ... just code the application to deal with an unexpected closure of the communication channel). THIS is one of the IMPORTANT reasons I no longer bother to even look at new APIs anymore. APIs are so 2nd millennium, anyway. Protocols (with tiny tweaks) can work over networks as well as Unix namespace sockets (the tweak is that you get more information via named sockets, like the userid of the other process ... and hence better security). Or the main application process can launch a process to run the plugin with and use a socket pair to communicate. And protocols are more portable (just use network byte order if passing data in binary form when you need to avoid XML or JSON processing overhead).
Just rip the sites and feed it all to your own streaming server ... content wants to be shared.
... I wasn't using that piece of crap called Flash, anyway. I'm glad it is finally going away and I will have an even better excuse to tell webmasters to start using Web Standards.
In the beginning, there was nothing. Then it exploded.
I like your signature. But ... you do have it backwards.
Just wait until your research grant funding account gets drained and sent to Nigeria so they can buy shit off the internet, pay their bills, have cybersex with their girlfriends, play online games (they hacked in to), and read the news about research grants being lost due to hacker breakins.