But I'm not affiliated with Slideshare, and it's handy to be notified of this news.
I've sort of put up with Slideshare because so many tech presentations (re: Drupal, PHP, and a bunch of other things) are on Slideshare.
The fact that they're HTML5 now gives me reason to explore it further.
Regarding Prezi, I don't know how it's the leader in this category. Slideshare's Alexa rank is an order of magnitude better than Prezi's, so more people are using Slideshare.
Thanks for the detailed answer. It's fitting that your reply is modded 4, but it's really strange that someone saw fit to mod the question itself to 0. How is the question a troll? In a story about VLC, is it trollish to ask whether it'll be able to do take advantage of hardware playback?
>I'm sure Ill get a bunch of replies from people here about how they moved from one to another but you need to understand that you are not in the majority.
That's why we're all posting these replies: to convince you we're in the majority!
Seriously though, I do truly think devs would be better devs if they had admin'ed for a while. And vice versa.
I can't imagine trying to admin without having any programming experience whatsoever. Not million-line programs. Just small C-language one-offs. Some understanding of what an OS is, what exactly a DLL or shared object library is. Part of admin'ing is compilation of programs (when RPMs or debs aren't available). That includes fixing or figuring out errors in compilation or linking as they come up.
For developers, if they understood the Unix philosophy, or proper separation of user rights in NT, they'd make better devs, and would be less likely to come up with the admin-rights-required monstrosities that some deliver.
I think the guy has a sense of entitlement or something owing to being a developer.
If you can't even bring yourself to be thought of as being in the same industry as a someone lower on the ladder, it's a good bet you're not too good of a team player.
Think of the Army. Someone says they're "in the Army." That could mean anything from the shower guy, typist, or infantryman.
Yet they're all in the army, and think of themselves in that way.
It's commonly said that junior devs should work a bit in tech support so they can understand how users have to put up with their handiwork.
In the same way, I don't think it would be bad for car engineers work as car mechanics for a year or so in order that they may not inflect the kind of pain that auto engineers like to: such as having to remove half the engine and dash before you can start to work on the car.
Why is that "sane" courts accept all kinds of jibber-jabber within the ToS's that no (normal) person even reads, and yet when non-corporation wants to make a tiny change in the balance of power, that's not "sane"?
I'm not saying that's now how it is, but let's not have lawyers talking high and mighty about how they're advocates for justice.
The only thing is it annoys me that they only hate workarounds in the case of a small guy. If it's a huge corp "working around" small problems like not even having the paperwork for a house they're foreclosing, there's no problem. Etc.
OK, but even there, isn't it allowed to use competitors' names in TV or print?
If you're sure about your product, there's no reason you shouldn't compare a Toyota Camry to a Honda Accord.
So why should it be different for web ads?
Granted, you shouldn't just use the competitor's name, leading the user to think that they're clicking on a link for Brand X. But something like "Looking for Brand X? Brand Y's better."
What's really funny is how American corps seem to be all about getting out of making stuff because they want to "climb the value chain" or some such.
So it's left to Chines companies to actually phones, touchpads, computers.
Next time you look around, everything in your home or office is made in China.
Then when Chinese companies start climbing the value chain (coming up with a ERP package or something), what are US companies going to do? Sell Shakira ringtones?
I can't speak to what optus was doing, but in general, I think it's perfectly cromulent to have one company bid on another company's name, and advertise their services (without deception).
For example, if someone types in "lenovo" why shouldn't Samsung be able to advertise their laptops as an alternative. Being able to do so might hurt Lenovo, but so what? It helps the consumer and increases competition.
Prior to this it was France that said you couldn't bid on the ever-so-sacred "Luis Vuitton" name and make customers aware of your own purses.
Are we talking hunter-gatherer or agriculturalist?
Aren't most forms of agriculture characterized by a few intensive weeks of planting followed by a few months of mostly waiting and also a bit of making sure the fields get watered (though most of the work there is done by rivers/streams/bullocks turning Persian wheels)?
Followed by some hard work again during harvest time.
Etymology From Latin nucula ("little nut") Noun nucule (plural nucules) A nutlet; a small nut.
Since nucleus and nucule are both from nucula, how is nucular pedantically wrong? In fact, pedants being wont to go to "original" pronunciations and "back to the Latin", nucular should actually sound better than nuclear.
Nucular is actually more faithful to the Latin than nuclear.
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But I'm not affiliated with Slideshare, and it's handy to be notified of this news.
I've sort of put up with Slideshare because so many tech presentations (re: Drupal, PHP, and a bunch of other things) are on Slideshare.
The fact that they're HTML5 now gives me reason to explore it further.
Regarding Prezi, I don't know how it's the leader in this category. Slideshare's Alexa rank is an order of magnitude better than Prezi's, so more people are using Slideshare.
Thanks for the detailed answer. It's fitting that your reply is modded 4, but it's really strange that someone saw fit to mod the question itself to 0. How is the question a troll? In a story about VLC, is it trollish to ask whether it'll be able to do take advantage of hardware playback?
How is WebM playback?
Does it need hardware accel?
Is there hardware accel on any current-model phones? Next gen phones?
>I'm sure Ill get a bunch of replies from people here about how they moved from one to another but you need to understand that you are not in the majority.
That's why we're all posting these replies: to convince you we're in the majority!
Seriously though, I do truly think devs would be better devs if they had admin'ed for a while. And vice versa.
I can't imagine trying to admin without having any programming experience whatsoever. Not million-line programs. Just small C-language one-offs. Some understanding of what an OS is, what exactly a DLL or shared object library is. Part of admin'ing is compilation of programs (when RPMs or debs aren't available). That includes fixing or figuring out errors in compilation or linking as they come up.
For developers, if they understood the Unix philosophy, or proper separation of user rights in NT, they'd make better devs, and would be less likely to come up with the admin-rights-required monstrosities that some deliver.
Tardulent is the antonym of cromulent.
I think the guy has a sense of entitlement or something owing to being a developer.
If you can't even bring yourself to be thought of as being in the same industry as a someone lower on the ladder, it's a good bet you're not too good of a team player.
Think of the Army. Someone says they're "in the Army." That could mean anything from the shower guy, typist, or infantryman.
Yet they're all in the army, and think of themselves in that way.
It's commonly said that junior devs should work a bit in tech support so they can understand how users have to put up with their handiwork.
In the same way, I don't think it would be bad for car engineers work as car mechanics for a year or so in order that they may not inflect the kind of pain that auto engineers like to: such as having to remove half the engine and dash before you can start to work on the car.
>And how many of those WHOIS email addresses are hidden behind privacy services such as domainsbyproxy or monicker?
Those privacy services hide your real email address, but still allo wpeople to send email to you via the email specified in Whois.
Why is that "sane" courts accept all kinds of jibber-jabber within the ToS's that no (normal) person even reads, and yet when non-corporation wants to make a tiny change in the balance of power, that's not "sane"?
I'm not saying that's now how it is, but let's not have lawyers talking high and mighty about how they're advocates for justice.
Although that's a good viewpoint, how far should we take it?
Would Amazon reviews also be illegal under the same legal theory?
Come to think of it, if I got a dollar for every dumb post I've made so far on Slashdot, ...
Well, for one thing, they're the head of the coalition of handset manufs that have a leading market share now (Open Handset Alliance).
And for another, they just bought a phone manufacture (Motorola), so I think you can expect to see WebM support coming soon to a phone near you.
For a trifecta, they own YouTube. So if they decide they want to drop h.264 support, they can certainly play the game.
>What it really wants to do is become a company more like IBM, which reorganized itself around services and consulting in the mid-90s.
Ah, that's just the thing: IBM didn't suddenly wake up one day and think that it wants to be X (a services company). It already was X.
The PC division was a minuscule portion of profits already.
That's not the same for HP. (Somebody posted the figures here during the original discussion when news broke they were trying to do an IBM.)
It was stupid to announce they were jettisoning the consumer divisions. They should have grown the other stuff, then let go of consumer.
>Judges hate smart arse "work arounds"
I have no doubt what you're saying is true.
The only thing is it annoys me that they only hate workarounds in the case of a small guy. If it's a huge corp "working around" small problems like not even having the paperwork for a house they're foreclosing, there's no problem. Etc.
OK, but even there, isn't it allowed to use competitors' names in TV or print?
If you're sure about your product, there's no reason you shouldn't compare a Toyota Camry to a Honda Accord.
So why should it be different for web ads?
Granted, you shouldn't just use the competitor's name, leading the user to think that they're clicking on a link for Brand X. But something like "Looking for Brand X? Brand Y's better."
What's really funny is how American corps seem to be all about getting out of making stuff because they want to "climb the value chain" or some such.
So it's left to Chines companies to actually phones, touchpads, computers.
Next time you look around, everything in your home or office is made in China.
Then when Chinese companies start climbing the value chain (coming up with a ERP package or something), what are US companies going to do? Sell Shakira ringtones?
I can't speak to what optus was doing, but in general, I think it's perfectly cromulent to have one company bid on another company's name, and advertise their services (without deception).
For example, if someone types in "lenovo" why shouldn't Samsung be able to advertise their laptops as an alternative. Being able to do so might hurt Lenovo, but so what? It helps the consumer and increases competition.
Prior to this it was France that said you couldn't bid on the ever-so-sacred "Luis Vuitton" name and make customers aware of your own purses.
Are we talking hunter-gatherer or agriculturalist?
Aren't most forms of agriculture characterized by a few intensive weeks of planting followed by a few months of mostly waiting and also a bit of making sure the fields get watered (though most of the work there is done by rivers/streams/bullocks turning Persian wheels)?
Followed by some hard work again during harvest time.
Comfy chairs?
The benches in the House of Commons don't look too comfy (though YMMV, as I've never sat on them).
Are you making a distinction between "app" and application?
Does the same apply to gas and gasoline?
Speaking of which, could someone please make a funny Hitler speach parody regarding the Pirate Party victory and post the link here?
Socialist conservatives?
Are they people who want to have a social security net, but also conservative social mores?
Not a troll.
>they are a "single-point-party" (don't know the real word in english)
It's called a single-issue party. People who vote for them are called single issue voters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-issue_politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-issue_politics#Single-issue_parties
OK, so it's "nuclear".
But is there any real reason it should be?
Check out the etymology for nucleus:
Now compare to "nucule"
Since nucleus and nucule are both from nucula, how is nucular pedantically wrong? In fact, pedants being wont to go to "original" pronunciations and "back to the Latin", nucular should actually sound better than nuclear.
Nucular is actually more faithful to the Latin than nuclear.
Nucular power. Sic.
working on nuclear bombs or some such at Sandia?
Or is this going to be the new control interface for the bombs?
So this is basically a script that restarts dead daemons, right?
What's the difference between this and Upstart?
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/faq.html