Indeed... the video professor story of Dec 2, 2009 is still being processed, and Tiger woods is up next.
There's somewhat of a backlog.
It's just that big corporations still stupidly believe they can suppress negative factual information easily if they just get enough lawyers involved....
Example usages: I waited all day in the bus cue, but 9:30 bus never came.
Whereas... Queue played by John de Lancie is a character in Star Trek, who appears in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the all-knowing, all-powerful Queue.
Also, Cue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) cues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO cues are also known as stacks).
At one end of extremes, we have
VPS / Cloud providers, Collocation.
At the other extreme we have providers who design your site and handle all the administration for you, editing, domain registration, e-mail servers, DNS management, Backups, etc.
Full service with control panel for everything VS administer-it-yourself using standard OS tools, Linux command line, etc.
Shared VS Virtually-Dedicated VS Dedicated.
You should expect to pay a good bit for every single service that you want done well and that you care about.
If you are paying $10/month and expect your hosting provider to do everything for you perfectly, then we have a problem of ridiculously high expectations.
$10/month shared hosting is just great for a personal web site. Hosting an e-commerce site on such a host, I regard as lunacy.
You should expect to pay for:
Network usage
Storage
Any server customizations required
Administration and maintenance of the server your site is hosted on
Administration and maintenance of geo-redundant DNS servers for your domain names
Registration, care, and design of your DNS zones (if you place these in the hands of your provider)
Any backups that you need: any additional copies of your data.
Any clustering or additional servers/machines to act as backup servers, if a catastrophe (or hardware failure) should occur to server hosting your site.
Security
Physical protections, e.g. backup power technology, UPS, generators', RAID, spare hardware.
[For $10/month, probably it is reasonable to expect UPS protection on a shared server, not much more than that]
Security cannot be understated.
If your web site exists on a shared server, you are at greater risk.
Your site will be more secure if a dedicated server is used, and physical safeguards are required to gain access to the rack your server is hosted in.
In other words, they don't bother to set quotas, so some other tenant could write a script that (accidentally) creates a few 500gb files on the server within 5 minutes, and suddenly your site can't write anything, because there's no disk space left.
The problem is generic websites (such as GooTube) that contain flash players not designed with 'touch screen' usage in mind.
For example, they might utilize things like oh "hover over the picture of a speaker to make the volume control appear"
By the way, that's really crappy and a major flaw
that got introduced at some point when the 'Youtube flash player' got re-designed and replaced with the 'New player' (volume control used to not require hovering).
Of course there are flash players other than Youtube on the big bad web, and video sites other than GooTube.
I'm sure Apple could sell Flash as an add-on to recoup the fee, and there would be a large percentage of Apple customers buying that add-on, despite Adobe's fees.
That may be a reason for Flash not to be free and included with the device, but that's no reason for Flash to be banned totally.
I think there's another reason... Flash sucks.
Flash is not an ideal solution.
It sucks from both an application design point of view, and from a user interface point of view.
It just doesn't fit well with the platform experience.
A native application runs, works, and looks much better than a flash applet and fits within the awesome user-interface design conventions of the platform.
Why take that beautiful iPhone, and muck it up with flash applets, that have broken "hover" interfaces?:)
Yeah, but with flash support they could make and sell access to commercial apps without giving apple a cut.
Also: even developers of free apps have to pay that approximately $99 for iPhone developer program membership to be able to get things into the app store:)
That's even better....
the more times it orbits, the higher its average MPG will be, since it's not consuming any fuel to orbit, its fuel mileage is essentially infinite, that is, until its orbit decays and comes crashing to earth.
Still, it could be a few million miles of travel before that happens.
It must kill the resale value though.
"This car has 5 million miles on it" (miles it was travelling in orbit around planet earth)
Well, the DVD is a large thing to copy over entirely, and can give the user a significant reduction in their available space, mostly for software they won't ever want.
They may be placing this on a 20 or 30gb hard drive, in which case it'll eat up a good 8 - 10% of their available storage.
The basic OS install itself uses up approximately 10gb, so after adding 3gb of CD data, they only have perhaps 7gb left for installing extra packages, MP3s, and other user files...
The point there is to have the entire software library available in a local repository rather than having to go out to the Internet all the time. And you can do that in Debian/Ubuntu/Mint as well, if you like.
Well, if your system is going to be connecting via dial-up, or some low-grade connection that doesn't even sync up at 10Meg, sure, otherwise no..
In my experience.. an "apt-get install" / "apt-get upgrade" on Ubuntu and a "conary install" / "conary update" on a Foresight Linux for online packages are both much faster than an install from media on a YaST system.
With the exception of really large packages, and some packages that have a massive number of dependencies.
Yum is sluggish. YaST install even from media is slow as hell, last I tried it, Novell really needs to fix that...
Windows works for them, and they're happy, you're just asking for a LOT of headaches with tech support, questions, and problems.
And if you install or support Windows for them, you're also bound for a lot of headaches with tech support, viruses, spyware, questions, problems, etc
That you as a primarily Linux user will be less-equipped to answer or deal with,
if you use Linux as your primary OS, unless you have good solid extensive IT experience administering Windows desktops, choosing software, etc, in uncontrolled environments.
In most well-run IT environments, even in desktop support, you should have few issues that actually assist you in learning the right things.
Corporate AV and group policy settings (strong policy/security controls) help keep an unruly OS slightly more behaved than otherwise.
If you're in for a headache either way, perhaps the Linux option is less of a headache long-term
Once the initial hurdles of "get your daily stuff done" are crossed... the Linux system should be downright stable, with little risk of being exploited (if you did the setup properly).
The problem is the default nowadays is not deciding on your own.
Your PC manufacturer almost always picks Windows for you.
And you have to be what is nowadays considered an expert (and used to be considered a newbie) to be able to format and install a new OS of any sort, or even to upgrade Windows.
I do heavy development with a database server, and I see absolutely no advantage of using Windows to do that.
In fact, there are many disadvantages to using a Windows-based system to do that type of works.
This is best done from an OS such as MACOS or Linux which can actually run a decent database server application for testing.
Windows is the last OS I would want to write the server piece of a clientserver app against.
As for the client piece, that should get written using multi-platform APIs such as Java, SDL, and wxWidgets which are OS independent, and development is no better from a Windows system.
Linux will not magically create a 100MB partition that you cannot erase and is essential to the operating system,
Haven't you ever heard of/boot.
Maybe some distros of Linux don't use this, but popular ones do.
Due to limited capabilities of the BIOS to address extended disk regions.
Linux will support RAID - 0, 1, 1+0, etc
At the consumer level, RAID configurations are extremely rare; even the limited RAID capabilities of Windows are very rarely used, and people who want RAID10 can always buy a superior solution: a hardware-based RAID controller. Which is also the only way to have reliably hot-pluggable drives.
you can choose to have your entire Linux partition encrypted - no need to buy Windows 7 Ultimate, or install truecrypt later
This is a security feature that the average computer user isn't much concerned about.
you can install Linux even when there are multiple hard drives in your computer (you can only install Windows 7 if there is one and only one hard drive installed)
Most Windows users do not perform the OS install themselves.
They buy pre-installed computer systems, usually name-brand such as Dell or HP, or have a paid technician do the install (in case they needed to have an existing system rebuilt).
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They're doing business in Canada however.
Are you saying it's OK if a company sends bandits to burglarize your houses, enslave your women, and steal your children?
Can't do anything about it, they're based in switzerland, even though the games are being held in Canada, nanananana....
Indeed... the video professor story of Dec 2, 2009 is still being processed, and Tiger woods is up next.
There's somewhat of a backlog. It's just that big corporations still stupidly believe they can suppress negative factual information easily if they just get enough lawyers involved....
Example usages: I waited all day in the bus cue, but 9:30 bus never came.
Whereas... Queue played by John de Lancie is a character in Star Trek, who appears in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the all-knowing, all-powerful Queue.
Also, Cue implementations are commonly based on insertion order as in first-in, first-out (FIFO) cues or last-in, first-out queues (LIFO cues are also known as stacks).
while ( 1 )
{
if ( (q=&streisand_effect_queue)->length == 0)
continue;
implement(q->head);
q->pop();
}
They have it now, it'll take an act of Congress to get rid of it.
Or an act of the courts protecting the constitutional rights of the people.
At one end of extremes, we have VPS / Cloud providers, Collocation.
At the other extreme we have providers who design your site and handle all the administration for you, editing, domain registration, e-mail servers, DNS management, Backups, etc.
Full service with control panel for everything VS administer-it-yourself using standard OS tools, Linux command line, etc.
Shared VS Virtually-Dedicated VS Dedicated.
You should expect to pay a good bit for every single service that you want done well and that you care about.
If you are paying $10/month and expect your hosting provider to do everything for you perfectly, then we have a problem of ridiculously high expectations.
$10/month shared hosting is just great for a personal web site. Hosting an e-commerce site on such a host, I regard as lunacy.
You should expect to pay for:
[For $10/month, probably it is reasonable to expect UPS protection on a shared server, not much more than that]
Security cannot be understated. If your web site exists on a shared server, you are at greater risk. Your site will be more secure if a dedicated server is used, and physical safeguards are required to gain access to the rack your server is hosted in.
Heck... Amazon EC2 :)
There are limits, but they are mostly physical ones. You can ask for more space -- you pay for how much EBS storage you choose to allocate.
You can't use it for backup. But there's no cap
In other words, they don't bother to set quotas, so some other tenant could write a script that (accidentally) creates a few 500gb files on the server within 5 minutes, and suddenly your site can't write anything, because there's no disk space left.
Well.. i'd say if you have your finger over it for longer then a second, you'll have to lift and touch again, before a click will occur
Then you could still hover freely, you just couldn't have an equivalent to "click and hold the mouse button"
Which could be a problem, if the touch screen platform is sophisticated enough to have "drag and drop"
The problem is generic websites (such as GooTube) that contain flash players not designed with 'touch screen' usage in mind.
For example, they might utilize things like oh "hover over the picture of a speaker to make the volume control appear"
By the way, that's really crappy and a major flaw that got introduced at some point when the 'Youtube flash player' got re-designed and replaced with the 'New player' (volume control used to not require hovering).
Of course there are flash players other than Youtube on the big bad web, and video sites other than GooTube.
I'm sure Apple could sell Flash as an add-on to recoup the fee, and there would be a large percentage of Apple customers buying that add-on, despite Adobe's fees.
That may be a reason for Flash not to be free and included with the device, but that's no reason for Flash to be banned totally.
I think there's another reason... Flash sucks.
Flash is not an ideal solution.
It sucks from both an application design point of view, and from a user interface point of view.
It just doesn't fit well with the platform experience.
A native application runs, works, and looks much better than a flash applet and fits within the awesome user-interface design conventions of the platform.
Why take that beautiful iPhone, and muck it up with flash applets, that have broken "hover" interfaces? :)
Perhaps HTML5 will be the answer.
they certainly could make it an imperfect option
BZZZT! Wrong.
When have you ever known Apple to choose something they would consider an imperfect option?
It is entirely contrary to their philosophy, to choose a user interface option they consider imperfect.
Everything Apple releases is a work of art... the interface and how it all looks has to be perfect in their eyes.
Actually... i'd go for differentiating between touching the screen and pressing the screen.
In other words... just touch the display to hover, push down a little bit and lift up, if you want to "click"
Or perhaps just lifting up indicates a click.. and as long as your hand is still in contact with the display, you haven't clicked yet :)
Yeah, but with flash support they could make and sell access to commercial apps without giving apple a cut.
Also: even developers of free apps have to pay that approximately $99 for iPhone developer program membership to be able to get things into the app store :)
Indeed. It is no flaw in flash itself. It's a flaw in the way flash has been used.
Developers have attempted to use flash to create things like 'menus' that do not really act like menus.
Just stick with flash apps that do not do dumb things like require 'hovering' to get to important UI elements, in the first place.
I meant getting the thing wet I really have no idea how the word weight got in there.
Must be a bug in my software.
That's even better.... the more times it orbits, the higher its average MPG will be, since it's not consuming any fuel to orbit, its fuel mileage is essentially infinite, that is, until its orbit decays and comes crashing to earth.
Still, it could be a few million miles of travel before that happens.
It must kill the resale value though. "This car has 5 million miles on it" (miles it was travelling in orbit around planet earth)
Then again, it may get some collectors' value.
Except you have to count fuel used by the plane to reach that height in the calculation, so it's not 2k MPG :)
Well, the DVD is a large thing to copy over entirely, and can give the user a significant reduction in their available space, mostly for software they won't ever want.
They may be placing this on a 20 or 30gb hard drive, in which case it'll eat up a good 8 - 10% of their available storage.
The basic OS install itself uses up approximately 10gb, so after adding 3gb of CD data, they only have perhaps 7gb left for installing extra packages, MP3s, and other user files...
The point there is to have the entire software library available in a local repository rather than having to go out to the Internet all the time. And you can do that in Debian/Ubuntu/Mint as well, if you like.
Well, if your system is going to be connecting via dial-up, or some low-grade connection that doesn't even sync up at 10Meg, sure, otherwise no..
In my experience.. an "apt-get install" / "apt-get upgrade" on Ubuntu and a "conary install" / "conary update" on a Foresight Linux for online packages are both much faster than an install from media on a YaST system.
With the exception of really large packages, and some packages that have a massive number of dependencies.
Yum is sluggish. YaST install even from media is slow as hell, last I tried it, Novell really needs to fix that...
I would suggest putting them in control. Make the themes available, let them choose, make sure they know how to change it whenever they want.
Windows works for them, and they're happy, you're just asking for a LOT of headaches with tech support, questions, and problems.
And if you install or support Windows for them, you're also bound for a lot of headaches with tech support, viruses, spyware, questions, problems, etc
That you as a primarily Linux user will be less-equipped to answer or deal with, if you use Linux as your primary OS, unless you have good solid extensive IT experience administering Windows desktops, choosing software, etc, in uncontrolled environments.
In most well-run IT environments, even in desktop support, you should have few issues that actually assist you in learning the right things.
Corporate AV and group policy settings (strong policy/security controls) help keep an unruly OS slightly more behaved than otherwise.
If you're in for a headache either way, perhaps the Linux option is less of a headache long-term
Once the initial hurdles of "get your daily stuff done" are crossed... the Linux system should be downright stable, with little risk of being exploited (if you did the setup properly).
The problem is the default nowadays is not deciding on your own. Your PC manufacturer almost always picks Windows for you.
And you have to be what is nowadays considered an expert (and used to be considered a newbie) to be able to format and install a new OS of any sort, or even to upgrade Windows.
or do heavy development with a database server
Huh, wait, what?
I do heavy development with a database server, and I see absolutely no advantage of using Windows to do that. In fact, there are many disadvantages to using a Windows-based system to do that type of works.
This is best done from an OS such as MACOS or Linux which can actually run a decent database server application for testing.
Windows is the last OS I would want to write the server piece of a clientserver app against.
As for the client piece, that should get written using multi-platform APIs such as Java, SDL, and wxWidgets which are OS independent, and development is no better from a Windows system.
Linux will not magically create a 100MB partition that you cannot erase and is essential to the operating system,
Haven't you ever heard of /boot.
Maybe some distros of Linux don't use this, but popular ones do.
Due to limited capabilities of the BIOS to address extended disk regions.
Linux will support RAID - 0, 1, 1+0, etc
At the consumer level, RAID configurations are extremely rare; even the limited RAID capabilities of Windows are very rarely used, and people who want RAID10 can always buy a superior solution: a hardware-based RAID controller. Which is also the only way to have reliably hot-pluggable drives.
you can choose to have your entire Linux partition encrypted - no need to buy Windows 7 Ultimate, or install truecrypt later
This is a security feature that the average computer user isn't much concerned about.
you can install Linux even when there are multiple hard drives in your computer (you can only install Windows 7 if there is one and only one hard drive installed)
Most Windows users do not perform the OS install themselves. They buy pre-installed computer systems, usually name-brand such as Dell or HP, or have a paid technician do the install (in case they needed to have an existing system rebuilt).