To me it is not wheather to use a $49.00 solution, but a company willing to thumb their noses at a $1500 solution, but have 50TB show that they probably rank in hundres of millions in revenue or billions. I have been out of corporate I.T. since 2005 and support business users doing jobs for computer shops that support them. Are companies really that cheap today?
It shows then that they do not care about their data appearently. Might as well stop the big Terabyte system if it means so little. This is not incompentence anymore to not have daily backups but pure negligence and is asounting.
RAID is not a backup solution. It is a disk redundant solution. What if there is a fire in the server room? Lightning taking whole array out? Or something happening on a Windows Server where a new box is needed and the image on the array can't boot with the new hardware?
Not really an issue on Unix, but blows goatballs on Windows unless my skills are outdated and this is no longer an issue on Windows 2008 and above?
If you can't get that data back you are done as a company and it is time to close shop. Just like auto insurnace you never know if you will need it but if you drive a company car and get sued for $1 million without it you are done unless you work for a fortune 500 company. It is common sense to have backup as without the data people can't work and the company ceists to operate. I am just dumbfounded companies are so cheap today. I have not worked in a big company I.T. department in years and from what I am reading here is that the world is different than in 2005. I hope I am wrong.
The MBA folks are the ones who are bean counters who need a business case for a backup and usually will deny it.
Oddly, in MBA school they do not tollerate excuses as everything is always your fault. If your computer breaks before a presentation it is your fault for not having a USB backup in your pocket, if your sick, it is your fault for not finishing it earlier. They always teach to be prepared for surpises so that when shit happens you will be ready.... but obviously not I.T. If they were any good they would realize this and not scoff at the $500 price tag when the company could lose $10,000 an hour or more! In the blame culture I would think those who CYA would eventually get promoted as those who wanted to save pennies would get fired when shit hits the fan on no plan was available for it.
See if you can cause a server to be down. When the CEO screams tell him such and such wanted to save $400 and didn't think it was worth it save $40,000 an hour on lost productivity to save $400 now. Sorry that had to happen during that $ 1,000,000 deal you lost. Heads would roll faster thanyou can say fired.... unfortunately, this makes a cloud all the more attractive that could end your own job:-(
Companies are really stupid today! Normally I do not use exclamation marks, but the latest scaffle in Thailand where every single hard drive is made on earth in an all your eggs in one basket to save on 5% economies of scales cost, to companies producing junk, and now this drives me crazy. It bothers me because so many of us are out of work and these companies are penny wise but certainly dollar dumb. To me no tape backup in any fortune 2,000 company is the equilivent of having no fire insurance. A single disaster could cost you everything and it is so cheap when you rake in millions.
After one failure the costs alone will be realized. I personally never worked in a place that did not have a daily backup. Hell, I knew someone fired because he messed up a daily backup for 2 days but with no data loss just because if it *did* happen it would be catastrophic.
The only place I knew who did it weekly was a small computer shop.
Are companies this cheap today run due to excessive cost accounting cutting and right sizing? I find this too hard to believe
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I can't stand Adobe for the logical reasons their products are complicated, very expensive, proprietary, and killed unix web development and the webs openess that existed 10 years ago. It is rational.
Also while looking georgous, air and flash kept IE 6 & 7 around for years after they should be dead. Webmasters have to use what users use and users use what webmasters develop for. It is why Windows won. Finally with flash not being an option for IOS and Windows 8 Metro/mobile it will give incentive to leave and for people/corporations to upgrade their browsers.
Right now Flash is cheaper to support. This is especially true if you already invested in the tools. Supporting IE 8 users angry that HTML 5 is not working costs money and potential for them to go to a competitor. It is still your problem and not theirs as it owns 30% of the web.
Flash is what made corporations and grandma stick with IE 6 as webmasters used it to make up for the lack of using beautiful frameworks for older browsers. I hate flash and what it did but there is no business case to get rid of it.
I am happy Steve Jobs disowned it and even happier MS is doing the same with Windows 8 Metro as it gives these users and webmasters an incentive to get a kick in the butt to look at HTML 5.
But change is expensive and corporations who just blew $500,000 upgrading their IE 6 intranet apps to IE 8 will be very pissed and scream, cry, and kick after blowing that to change to anything HTML 5 friendly before 2019. But it sucks right now because you need flash for desktops and HTML 5 for phones and this wont change in the short term future. That means your phone will be better at browsing the web than your powerfull computer because corporations and Joe six pack wont upgrade their browsers.
You can with CSS animations. The problem is Chrome and Mozilla have their own incompatible implementations.
HTML 5 will work eventually but it is being rushed due to mobile devices that need content right NOW without flash. Drag and drop, file completation dialog boxes, simulations, and interactions all are part of the HTML 5 standard.
Browsers aren the standards need to catch up.... and as others pointed flash is accelerated on all Windows desktops but old cards do not have mpeg acceleration by default and only IE 9 accelerates all of html by default. That is another issue, and IE 8 UGh. So sick of these older IE browsers.
Flash will stay around for desktop users of training videos for 3 years. After 3 years HTML 5 will mature and Adobe will fix the issues of html 5 export. I hate Adobe products but that is another topic. My hope is new free tools will replace the dependency on Adobe as HTML 5 is documentated and supported as output. Adobe should not be allowed to monopolize the net.
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People are using JS for much more than it was designed for. Even IEs dynamic html was to do simple things and people abused JS to cover inefficiences in older versions of IE and html 4.
There are animations being developed for CSS 3 that is not done yet but will take care of alot of the issues you describe. People are using javascript instead and it is ugly
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What browser are you using? Video card drivers make a difference too.
In phones it will be the other way around as the drivers accelerate mpeg video but not flash. I have an ATI 5750 so it is a high end card with recent drivers so both are accelerated and I notice no difference. Actualy html 5 is faster, particularly with IE 9. Chrome disables hardware acceleration by default. Chrome 17 beta fixes this. Go into config:flags and check it on and you will see a difference.
HTML 5 will get faster as browsers enable this and video card drivers start to enable more video acceleration. The new drivers have it and my guess is they want you to upgrade. Try IE 9 and update your video drivers as well as do that setting in Chrome. It will tie in performance
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"Name me ONE THING that HTML V5 does better?"
1. HTML 5 is multiplatform 2. Wont require $$$ expensive adobe products 3. Hardware acceleration can be used on non-Windows platforms for video 4. HTML 5 supports web database and file reader and writer apis 5. Support for native gui boxes like completation dialog boxes so it looks right in each platform 6. Will run better on Andriod platforms that have mpeg acceleration that has issues with flash on certain swf 7. Better touch screen support 8. Can be controlled by CSS so the site can have a nice phone, tablet, or big desktop look 9. Better CPU usage if using a 100% hardware accelerated HTML like in future versions of Chrome and IE 9 and above
I do not own any Apple products besides a very old Ipod mini and I am not a iFanboi. I have an open mind and HTML 5 does have BIG PROBLEMS currently as well. My points are what it promises to be in 5 years. Adobe is still prevailant and IE 8 still doesn't support is so it is not multiplatform yet until it starts to die off. I hate Adobe because it closed teh web and it was free and open in the past. Now I need Windows and need $$$ for crappy Adobe ides just to have my resume current. It sounds like your video card driver didn't accelerate your video but did with flash but I dunno. My phone is crappy with flash but fine the other way around with html 5. H.264 SUCKS due to the drm and licensing and that is another issue currently. My guess is webmasters will have to do an if statement in CSS with a particular video for each browser as a fix. To me FOSS is more fucked with Flash being required for any real web development. It cuts off access to many people which is agaisnt the spirit and just as bad.
So I support HTML 5 for these reasons and oppose flash for freedom too which you do not want to hear. The cons will go away in a couple of years and better compression and codecs will be used to take care of bandwidth. Flash does it out of the box already and people do not bother with these things in plan videos with html 5 yet. Adobe is addressing this very thing so it will take less bandwidth if you use their tools. It is still developing.
Look mcgrew, you can't force someone to pay you or pay you more. Be creative, go occupy DC for creating this problem with lax bank regulations, the Federal reserve, community re-investment act, and other things that obstruct the free market? Go register people to vote? Integrate into the democratic party in the primaries?
Right now everyone owes too much money as we created our money out of thin air with debt. It is time to pay and the workers are the ones paying for it with lower paychecks as this is the markets way to correct itself. It is not the greedy CEO problems but created by banks. I do not agree it is right but I can't change it and yes they need to get paid by everyone deflating their salaries until more debt is paid back.
It is not a Rush Limbaugh concept, but people will not be paid more until the government steps out, debts both public and private are paid off, and economic prosperity solves the inequality. There is no other way. Greece and Italy tried to be very socialistic and look where they are now? Economic collapse
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You talk about harm inflicted with these people living paycheck to paycheck.
Do you think they would like the alternative? No job? Starvation? Or Living at home with their parents?
I do feel it is not fair and our parents generation (I am in my 30s) had it much easier, but what are the alternatives? You can't force someone to pay you more. In an economic recession or depression like we are in now the employers can and will take advantage. When things improve like in the 1990s and 1950s the people decide to quit their jobs, start businesses, and invest in themselves so they can be compensated more.
With high debt you should be angry at Washington DC and not Wall Street. Lax regulations of banks caused all of our monitary system to be created out of thin imaginary numbers so the market responds by having us all be paid less as a means to correct itself. It is the invisible hand of the free market in respond to goverment. Go occupy DC and take your anger out on them.
Sure living paycheck to paycheck might not be ideal but that is life and it beats starvation right?
It is a chicken and an egg. Developers use what people use. People use because that’s what developers write for.
They feel something that just works as a superior product. Many love IE because all websites work with it so they feel IE supports the most standards whether it is true or not.
Windows 8 METRO IE and IOS are finally breaking Flash. People only still use old IE browsers is because developers think they still need to support it. Only recently with MS pulling the plug on XP are corporations finally leaving IE 6 behind otherwise they will use it forever. Some actually are doing this just and running it in VMs.
I hate Flash because they obstruct free and open standards of the internet and require money to learn and participate. Adobe is the new standard whether you feel it is the best solution or not. With IE 8 staying for a while if Windows 8 flops it will be a thorn in developers’ eyes as they will still use flash for years to come. It all depends on if people upgrade.
HTML 5 can be better and freerer once it matures and browsers support it. Give it 2 - 3 years as Flash right now is far from dead.
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The advertisements are in a particular section of a site. They can still be blocked.
Also with mpeg aceleration they wont bog down at all.
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I was just about to type a similiar point.
One difference between you and me is I HATE FLASH. I agree with your points on a technical scale too. However, it is agaisn't the very spirit of the web itself. 15 years ago anyone could learn HTML and get a job. You opened notepad and typed in html and it was easy. Flash... oh you need that for a job now. Ok that will be $700. Photoshop too? That will now be $1400.
Linux for web developlment? Nope. MacOSX or Windows:-(
I learned Linux 10 years ago because unix had awesome tools like PHP that were free. Now flash being proprietary is forcing me to use Windows again and that is agaisnt the spirit of GNU. I am not a gnu zealot but those who are and like flash are hypocritical. No one sees the dangers of this?
Now you need to pay Adobe and use closed standards to develop wibsites. You mention IE which I just learned to hate developing for as I am trying to start a business and learned how bad IE 6 is. I expect corporate customers and the big boys still use IE 6 and will well after 2013 as they use VMs and I need it to look pretty across all browsers. Now I am tempted to learn flash and it is wrong and so many levels. Sigh
I pray Windows 8 is fixed more in desktop mode so corporations and people can upgrade IE 7 to IE 10 and we can start HTML 5.
Apple did the right thing in killing Flash. It sucks on my Andriod and is CPU sucking when I try to watch porn. Mpeg hardware acceleration can help things greatly.
To me in 2011 Flash is the most practical solution, while HTML 5 is the most ideal.
Ypur old posts were very critical of Windows 7 and when it came out it wasn't that bad.
Win 8 is still in development so I hope MS comes to its senses as it is testing the METRO tile which would be great on a tablet. Ars Technica had a story where MS wanted to get rid of the start button so I dread you might be right. As of today no one should still be running XP. I mean come on! Vista with it being bad and many years late taught the accountants and even average Joes that using obsolete browsers and operating systems are a good investment and if Windows 7 becomes a 10 year OS it will be norm for now on. I do not want to wait until 2019 to enjoy HTML 5 because of IE 8/win 7 being the 2010s equilivant of 2000s XP/IE 6, and would hate develiping a cool html 5 site for phones only because win 8 bombs and freaks 1/3 of the population and all of corporate america out making the rest of us suffer.
If even MS includes a more friendly mouse aware Windows 8 where apps go into a dekstop mode it would be more tollerable. Windows 8 is even lighter and can run on less hardware than Windows 7. It is a great OS with a medocre desktop bolted on top. I still hope the final builds will be better as it is not even beta yet.
I fear you may be right and Windows 9 will put the start menu back on. We will see if MS is smart as they have R&D and usability testing unlike Gnome which threw theirs out from Sun in Gnome 2. Vista, was the oddball as Balmer/Gates didn't care as long as it was out fearing people would stick with Xp. Their fears proved true. I will keep my Phenom II as it has a nice HD 5750 on the asus and is a great value. It runs Wow fine and the upcomming Star Wars the Old Republic. I need to use it for work like running VMs and photoshop and it will suit for years to come. If I were buying today I would pick an Icore 5, or llamo for a notebook. Bulldozers are not good and ghz per ghz the phenom II offer a better value under w7 if you have a video card.
The Windows 7 cpu scheduler screws up the threading with the bulldozers. The way the cpu architecture is setup where the cache is shared and a miss will cause a big delay between the cores. It can be done better without Windows 7 trying to but the threads on the same CPU as the father process.
Windows 8 and Linux will show the bulldozers about 20% faster. This was from another slashdotter so I do not know how reliable that is. The thunderbirds have a nice branch prediction that takes of multithreading internally but WIndows 7 is tuned for older intel cpus.
Ihave a phenom II, and right now it is better than a bulldozer. Its age is beginning to show compared to the icore 5s and Sandy bridge processors. Best bang for the buck but in 4 years it will be very obsolete and the bulldozer wont be much better if WIndows 8 is the next Vista and people flock to Windows 7. God, I hope not as I support IE 6 still, and do not want to repeate with IE 8 in 2019. Hopefully Windows 8 will have an improved desktop mode or at least mouse friendly tiles. It is weird unswipping the screen with a mouse compared to my driod. I guess we will find out next summer
Didn't they go out of business? First they attended the sdram IEE conferences where the design of SDRAM was discussed and how all the memory chip makters would make it back in 1992. Rambus immediately called the headquarters and patented the whole spec on purpose to sue everyone out of existence to force their own proprietary design.
Then they gave away 25% of their shares to Intel below market value in exchange for using only Rambus ram. Intel woudl get billions in kickbacks if SDRAM went out of existence and gave a financial incentive.
Then they sued everyone and if it were not for AMD Rambus would be the next monopoly in ram. AMD still used Sdram which many of us preferred over the high latency and $$$ rambus. They lost and thank god. We would be stuck with $200 512 meg ram chips today with just rambus existing and probably no flash drives.
They were worse than MS in my opinion and filled with greed.
Let your representative know. Many senators are clueless and if they start getting calls and emails into the hundreds they will quickly notice and re-exam the bill. Trust me even if they are corrupt many are having a tough fight with a 9% approval rating and maybe willing to cater.
Exactly, the boss doesn't pay $10/hr an hour for the CS grad who can't find a job elsewhere to tune it to handle 10 petabytes by the end of the business day for nothing.
Suse once had great font rendering on LCD screens due to their version of XOrg implementing proper font rendering and hinting.
Cleartype fonts semi existence thanks to the MS deal. They are crippled intentionally and butt ugly on purpose because MS wants you to use Windows instead. I refuse to use SuSE and yes the deal harmed Suse and crippled their own product.
The reason being is they no longer have that strangle and fear in the market they had 10 years ago. MS can't have their own standards in IE anymore because it has less than 50% of the market. They can't monopolize mobile phone development because they own 2% of the market now.
MS is competing with innovation whether you hate their products or not. I look at it this way. I support computers and work on websites. I hate IE 6 and XP. If they fail and have no vision these corporate customers wont switch to Linux (assuming your a fan of it). They will use decade old proprietary software for crying out loud and cry like a baby and blame it on me if they can't get it to work like new.
It hurts you as HTML 5 sites and innovation can't exist on your linux or MacOSX desktop because webmasters have to support old versions of IE. These users wont leave MS no matter what. My wife is one of these users who even has a mac at work and hates it and loves her Vista sloooow laptop at home. The innovation and progress comes from not faster CPUs but from doing more from the internet and being able to express ideas from your computing device. Graphically this is getting easier with time and it has not matured yet. Tablets and touchscreens will help.
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To me it is not wheather to use a $49.00 solution, but a company willing to thumb their noses at a $1500 solution, but have 50TB show that they probably rank in hundres of millions in revenue or billions. I have been out of corporate I.T. since 2005 and support business users doing jobs for computer shops that support them. Are companies really that cheap today?
It shows then that they do not care about their data appearently. Might as well stop the big Terabyte system if it means so little. This is not incompentence anymore to not have daily backups but pure negligence and is asounting.
RAID is not a backup solution. It is a disk redundant solution. What if there is a fire in the server room? Lightning taking whole array out? Or something happening on a Windows Server where a new box is needed and the image on the array can't boot with the new hardware?
Not really an issue on Unix, but blows goatballs on Windows unless my skills are outdated and this is no longer an issue on Windows 2008 and above?
If you can't get that data back you are done as a company and it is time to close shop. Just like auto insurnace you never know if you will need it but if you drive a company car and get sued for $1 million without it you are done unless you work for a fortune 500 company. It is common sense to have backup as without the data people can't work and the company ceists to operate. I am just dumbfounded companies are so cheap today. I have not worked in a big company I.T. department in years and from what I am reading here is that the world is different than in 2005. I hope I am wrong.
The MBA folks are the ones who are bean counters who need a business case for a backup and usually will deny it.
Oddly, in MBA school they do not tollerate excuses as everything is always your fault. If your computer breaks before a presentation it is your fault for not having a USB backup in your pocket, if your sick, it is your fault for not finishing it earlier. They always teach to be prepared for surpises so that when shit happens you will be ready. ... but obviously not I.T. If they were any good they would realize this and not scoff at the $500 price tag when the company could lose $10,000 an hour or more! In the blame culture I would think those who CYA would eventually get promoted as those who wanted to save pennies would get fired when shit hits the fan on no plan was available for it.
Document the hell out of that!
See if you can cause a server to be down. When the CEO screams tell him such and such wanted to save $400 and didn't think it was worth it save $40,000 an hour on lost productivity to save $400 now. Sorry that had to happen during that $ 1,000,000 deal you lost. Heads would roll faster thanyou can say fired. ... unfortunately, this makes a cloud all the more attractive that could end your own job :-(
Companies are really stupid today! Normally I do not use exclamation marks, but the latest scaffle in Thailand where every single hard drive is made on earth in an all your eggs in one basket to save on 5% economies of scales cost, to companies producing junk, and now this drives me crazy. It bothers me because so many of us are out of work and these companies are penny wise but certainly dollar dumb. To me no tape backup in any fortune 2,000 company is the equilivent of having no fire insurance. A single disaster could cost you everything and it is so cheap when you rake in millions.
After one failure the costs alone will be realized. I personally never worked in a place that did not have a daily backup. Hell, I knew someone fired because he messed up a daily backup for 2 days but with no data loss just because if it *did* happen it would be catastrophic.
The only place I knew who did it weekly was a small computer shop.
Are companies this cheap today run due to excessive cost accounting cutting and right sizing? I find this too hard to believe
I can't stand Adobe for the logical reasons their products are complicated, very expensive, proprietary, and killed unix web development and the webs openess that existed 10 years ago. It is rational.
Also while looking georgous, air and flash kept IE 6 & 7 around for years after they should be dead. Webmasters have to use what users use and users use what webmasters develop for. It is why Windows won. Finally with flash not being an option for IOS and Windows 8 Metro/mobile it will give incentive to leave and for people/corporations to upgrade their browsers.
Right now Flash is cheaper to support. This is especially true if you already invested in the tools. Supporting IE 8 users angry that HTML 5 is not working costs money and potential for them to go to a competitor. It is still your problem and not theirs as it owns 30% of the web.
Flash is what made corporations and grandma stick with IE 6 as webmasters used it to make up for the lack of using beautiful frameworks for older browsers. I hate flash and what it did but there is no business case to get rid of it.
I am happy Steve Jobs disowned it and even happier MS is doing the same with Windows 8 Metro as it gives these users and webmasters an incentive to get a kick in the butt to look at HTML 5.
But change is expensive and corporations who just blew $500,000 upgrading their IE 6 intranet apps to IE 8 will be very pissed and scream, cry, and kick after blowing that to change to anything HTML 5 friendly before 2019. But it sucks right now because you need flash for desktops and HTML 5 for phones and this wont change in the short term future. That means your phone will be better at browsing the web than your powerfull computer because corporations and Joe six pack wont upgrade their browsers.
You can with CSS animations. The problem is Chrome and Mozilla have their own incompatible implementations.
HTML 5 will work eventually but it is being rushed due to mobile devices that need content right NOW without flash. Drag and drop, file completation dialog boxes, simulations, and interactions all are part of the HTML 5 standard.
Browsers aren the standards need to catch up. ... and as others pointed flash is accelerated on all Windows desktops but old cards do not have mpeg acceleration by default and only IE 9 accelerates all of html by default. That is another issue, and IE 8 UGh. So sick of these older IE browsers.
Flash will stay around for desktop users of training videos for 3 years. After 3 years HTML 5 will mature and Adobe will fix the issues of html 5 export. I hate Adobe products but that is another topic. My hope is new free tools will replace the dependency on Adobe as HTML 5 is documentated and supported as output. Adobe should not be allowed to monopolize the net.
People are using JS for much more than it was designed for. Even IEs dynamic html was to do simple things and people abused JS to cover inefficiences in older versions of IE and html 4.
There are animations being developed for CSS 3 that is not done yet but will take care of alot of the issues you describe. People are using javascript instead and it is ugly
What browser are you using? Video card drivers make a difference too.
In phones it will be the other way around as the drivers accelerate mpeg video but not flash. I have an ATI 5750 so it is a high end card with recent drivers so both are accelerated and I notice no difference. Actualy html 5 is faster, particularly with IE 9. Chrome disables hardware acceleration by default. Chrome 17 beta fixes this. Go into config:flags and check it on and you will see a difference.
HTML 5 will get faster as browsers enable this and video card drivers start to enable more video acceleration. The new drivers have it and my guess is they want you to upgrade. Try IE 9 and update your video drivers as well as do that setting in Chrome. It will tie in performance
"Name me ONE THING that HTML V5 does better?"
1. HTML 5 is multiplatform
2. Wont require $$$ expensive adobe products
3. Hardware acceleration can be used on non-Windows platforms for video
4. HTML 5 supports web database and file reader and writer apis
5. Support for native gui boxes like completation dialog boxes so it looks right in each platform
6. Will run better on Andriod platforms that have mpeg acceleration that has issues with flash on certain swf
7. Better touch screen support
8. Can be controlled by CSS so the site can have a nice phone, tablet, or big desktop look
9. Better CPU usage if using a 100% hardware accelerated HTML like in future versions of Chrome and IE 9 and above
I do not own any Apple products besides a very old Ipod mini and I am not a iFanboi. I have an open mind and HTML 5 does have BIG PROBLEMS currently as well. My points are what it promises to be in 5 years. Adobe is still prevailant and IE 8 still doesn't support is so it is not multiplatform yet until it starts to die off. I hate Adobe because it closed teh web and it was free and open in the past. Now I need Windows and need $$$ for crappy Adobe ides just to have my resume current. It sounds like your video card driver didn't accelerate your video but did with flash but I dunno. My phone is crappy with flash but fine the other way around with html 5. H.264 SUCKS due to the drm and licensing and that is another issue currently. My guess is webmasters will have to do an if statement in CSS with a particular video for each browser as a fix. To me FOSS is more fucked with Flash being required for any real web development. It cuts off access to many people which is agaisnt the spirit and just as bad.
So I support HTML 5 for these reasons and oppose flash for freedom too which you do not want to hear. The cons will go away in a couple of years and better compression and codecs will be used to take care of bandwidth. Flash does it out of the box already and people do not bother with these things in plan videos with html 5 yet. Adobe is addressing this very thing so it will take less bandwidth if you use their tools. It is still developing.
No he is right.
Look mcgrew, you can't force someone to pay you or pay you more. Be creative, go occupy DC for creating this problem with lax bank regulations, the Federal reserve, community re-investment act, and other things that obstruct the free market? Go register people to vote? Integrate into the democratic party in the primaries?
Right now everyone owes too much money as we created our money out of thin air with debt. It is time to pay and the workers are the ones paying for it with lower paychecks as this is the markets way to correct itself. It is not the greedy CEO problems but created by banks. I do not agree it is right but I can't change it and yes they need to get paid by everyone deflating their salaries until more debt is paid back.
It is not a Rush Limbaugh concept, but people will not be paid more until the government steps out, debts both public and private are paid off, and economic prosperity solves the inequality. There is no other way. Greece and Italy tried to be very socialistic and look where they are now? Economic collapse
You talk about harm inflicted with these people living paycheck to paycheck.
Do you think they would like the alternative? No job? Starvation? Or Living at home with their parents?
I do feel it is not fair and our parents generation (I am in my 30s) had it much easier, but what are the alternatives? You can't force someone to pay you more. In an economic recession or depression like we are in now the employers can and will take advantage. When things improve like in the 1990s and 1950s the people decide to quit their jobs, start businesses, and invest in themselves so they can be compensated more.
With high debt you should be angry at Washington DC and not Wall Street. Lax regulations of banks caused all of our monitary system to be created out of thin imaginary numbers so the market responds by having us all be paid less as a means to correct itself. It is the invisible hand of the free market in respond to goverment. Go occupy DC and take your anger out on them.
Sure living paycheck to paycheck might not be ideal but that is life and it beats starvation right?
It is a chicken and an egg. Developers use what people use. People use because that’s what developers write for.
They feel something that just works as a superior product. Many love IE because all websites work with it so they feel IE supports the most standards whether it is true or not.
Windows 8 METRO IE and IOS are finally breaking Flash. People only still use old IE browsers is because developers think they still need to support it. Only recently with MS pulling the plug on XP are corporations finally leaving IE 6 behind otherwise they will use it forever. Some actually are doing this just and running it in VMs.
I hate Flash because they obstruct free and open standards of the internet and require money to learn and participate. Adobe is the new standard whether you feel it is the best solution or not. With IE 8 staying for a while if Windows 8 flops it will be a thorn in developers’ eyes as they will still use flash for years to come. It all depends on if people upgrade.
HTML 5 can be better and freerer once it matures and browsers support it. Give it 2 - 3 years as Flash right now is far from dead.
The advertisements are in a particular section of a site. They can still be blocked.
Also with mpeg aceleration they wont bog down at all.
I was just about to type a similiar point.
One difference between you and me is I HATE FLASH. I agree with your points on a technical scale too. However, it is agaisn't the very spirit of the web itself. 15 years ago anyone could learn HTML and get a job. You opened notepad and typed in html and it was easy. Flash ... oh you need that for a job now. Ok that will be $700. Photoshop too? That will now be $1400.
Linux for web developlment? Nope. MacOSX or Windows :-(
I learned Linux 10 years ago because unix had awesome tools like PHP that were free. Now flash being proprietary is forcing me to use Windows again and that is agaisnt the spirit of GNU. I am not a gnu zealot but those who are and like flash are hypocritical. No one sees the dangers of this?
Now you need to pay Adobe and use closed standards to develop wibsites. You mention IE which I just learned to hate developing for as I am trying to start a business and learned how bad IE 6 is. I expect corporate customers and the big boys still use IE 6 and will well after 2013 as they use VMs and I need it to look pretty across all browsers. Now I am tempted to learn flash and it is wrong and so many levels. Sigh
I pray Windows 8 is fixed more in desktop mode so corporations and people can upgrade IE 7 to IE 10 and we can start HTML 5.
Apple did the right thing in killing Flash. It sucks on my Andriod and is CPU sucking when I try to watch porn. Mpeg hardware acceleration can help things greatly.
To me in 2011 Flash is the most practical solution, while HTML 5 is the most ideal.
Ypur old posts were very critical of Windows 7 and when it came out it wasn't that bad.
Win 8 is still in development so I hope MS comes to its senses as it is testing the METRO tile which would be great on a tablet. Ars Technica had a story where MS wanted to get rid of the start button so I dread you might be right. As of today no one should still be running XP. I mean come on! Vista with it being bad and many years late taught the accountants and even average Joes that using obsolete browsers and operating systems are a good investment and if Windows 7 becomes a 10 year OS it will be norm for now on. I do not want to wait until 2019 to enjoy HTML 5 because of IE 8/win 7 being the 2010s equilivant of 2000s XP/IE 6, and would hate develiping a cool html 5 site for phones only because win 8 bombs and freaks 1/3 of the population and all of corporate america out making the rest of us suffer.
If even MS includes a more friendly mouse aware Windows 8 where apps go into a dekstop mode it would be more tollerable. Windows 8 is even lighter and can run on less hardware than Windows 7. It is a great OS with a medocre desktop bolted on top. I still hope the final builds will be better as it is not even beta yet.
I fear you may be right and Windows 9 will put the start menu back on. We will see if MS is smart as they have R&D and usability testing unlike Gnome which threw theirs out from Sun in Gnome 2. Vista, was the oddball as Balmer/Gates didn't care as long as it was out fearing people would stick with Xp. Their fears proved true. I will keep my Phenom II as it has a nice HD 5750 on the asus and is a great value. It runs Wow fine and the upcomming Star Wars the Old Republic. I need to use it for work like running VMs and photoshop and it will suit for years to come. If I were buying today I would pick an Icore 5, or llamo for a notebook. Bulldozers are not good and ghz per ghz the phenom II offer a better value under w7 if you have a video card.
The Windows 7 cpu scheduler screws up the threading with the bulldozers. The way the cpu architecture is setup where the cache is shared and a miss will cause a big delay between the cores. It can be done better without Windows 7 trying to but the threads on the same CPU as the father process.
Windows 8 and Linux will show the bulldozers about 20% faster. This was from another slashdotter so I do not know how reliable that is. The thunderbirds have a nice branch prediction that takes of multithreading internally but WIndows 7 is tuned for older intel cpus.
Ihave a phenom II, and right now it is better than a bulldozer. Its age is beginning to show compared to the icore 5s and Sandy bridge processors. Best bang for the buck but in 4 years it will be very obsolete and the bulldozer wont be much better if WIndows 8 is the next Vista and people flock to Windows 7. God, I hope not as I support IE 6 still, and do not want to repeate with IE 8 in 2019. Hopefully Windows 8 will have an improved desktop mode or at least mouse friendly tiles. It is weird unswipping the screen with a mouse compared to my driod. I guess we will find out next summer
Rambus is or was pretty evil.
Didn't they go out of business? First they attended the sdram IEE conferences where the design of SDRAM was discussed and how all the memory chip makters would make it back in 1992. Rambus immediately called the headquarters and patented the whole spec on purpose to sue everyone out of existence to force their own proprietary design.
Then they gave away 25% of their shares to Intel below market value in exchange for using only Rambus ram. Intel woudl get billions in kickbacks if SDRAM went out of existence and gave a financial incentive.
Then they sued everyone and if it were not for AMD Rambus would be the next monopoly in ram. AMD still used Sdram which many of us preferred over the high latency and $$$ rambus. They lost and thank god. We would be stuck with $200 512 meg ram chips today with just rambus existing and probably no flash drives.
They were worse than MS in my opinion and filled with greed.
Mod parent up!
Let your representative know. Many senators are clueless and if they start getting calls and emails into the hundreds they will quickly notice and re-exam the bill. Trust me even if they are corrupt many are having a tough fight with a 9% approval rating and maybe willing to cater.
You sir do not webscale
I have 10 years experience with NoSQL Oracle DBMs as well as 7 years of HTML 5 experience with IE 6
Exactly, the boss doesn't pay $10/hr an hour for the CS grad who can't find a job elsewhere to tune it to handle 10 petabytes by the end of the business day for nothing.
Suse once had great font rendering on LCD screens due to their version of XOrg implementing proper font rendering and hinting.
Cleartype fonts semi existence thanks to the MS deal. They are crippled intentionally and butt ugly on purpose because MS wants you to use Windows instead. I refuse to use SuSE and yes the deal harmed Suse and crippled their own product.
MS seems much nicer and tamer today.
The reason being is they no longer have that strangle and fear in the market they had 10 years ago. MS can't have their own standards in IE anymore because it has less than 50% of the market. They can't monopolize mobile phone development because they own 2% of the market now.
MS is competing with innovation whether you hate their products or not. I look at it this way. I support computers and work on websites. I hate IE 6 and XP. If they fail and have no vision these corporate customers wont switch to Linux (assuming your a fan of it). They will use decade old proprietary software for crying out loud and cry like a baby and blame it on me if they can't get it to work like new.
It hurts you as HTML 5 sites and innovation can't exist on your linux or MacOSX desktop because webmasters have to support old versions of IE. These users wont leave MS no matter what. My wife is one of these users who even has a mac at work and hates it and loves her Vista sloooow laptop at home. The innovation and progress comes from not faster CPUs but from doing more from the internet and being able to express ideas from your computing device. Graphically this is getting easier with time and it has not matured yet. Tablets and touchscreens will help.