thunderbird has the same problem as firefox, the UI is horribly slow its almost unusable.
I use Thunderbird because its the only real email client in Linux with decent calendar integration that isn't Evolution (which itself has both eaten email and crashed several times to the point where it won't start again without having to clear out all my settings and start fresh).
Thunderbird with IMAP and the lightning extension installed routinely (like 20x per day) locks up for 5-10 seconds and shows wrong messages (or no message) when quickly switching between new emails. If they actually used multiple threads/processes for the UI so it respond to user interaction while doing other things it would be much better.
In a free market, its competition... If your competitor comes up with a one-time vaccine, even if it cost 10x as much, it would render the "one-a-year" guys obsolete overnight.
Of course when collusion is involved, they would just make a gentleman's agreement to not research a one-time vaccine, or keep it behind closed doors until such time as someone outside the agreement figures it out, then magically bring it to market.
Actually, it sounds like a network engineer asking how to better utilize the terrabits of available DOWNSTREAM bandwidth that Amazon has available. Running servers by its very nature primarily uses UPSTREAM bandwidth (serving content), so having people send them loads of data often and rarely reading it I'm sure will do wonders to better utilize that available bandwidth, not to mention backups/archives often happen during non-peak periods its a win-win for Amazon.
I want to own a good Android device, I really do, but its just not quite there yet...
Android 2.2/2.3 I just didn't like one bit and felt very sluggish, unpolished and the upgrade path for Android devices being what it is, I'm not willing to drop $600-700 on a phone that won't upgrade to the latest OS in a year. But when Honeycomb was released I decided to purchase a Xoom... Wow, was that the biggest purchasing mistake I've made in a while. It was complete garbage, I couldn't browse the web for more than 15 mins without the browser crashing, especially when visiting Motorola's own support forum. I kept it as long as I could in case an update was released to fix the problem, but that didn't materializes within the return period.
More recently I was going to purchase an Apple TV but instead grabbed a Pivos Xios that runs Ice Cream Sandwich... So far that has turned out to be another major mistake. The UI is garbage for the TV, even with the "sense" remote which acts like a mouse (but only works in a limited number of apps). Apps don't scale to the TV size well at all, the fonts are either too small or too big, icons too small or too big, or there is a ton of wasted space. The device itself is stable, but apps crash all the time, especially Netflix and many other video apps and they are all extremely slow to use, it can take 5-10 seconds to see a response just from clicking on something in Netflix. For a box designed to watch movies this is obviously unacceptable... The only exception so far has been Google Play which seems to work flawlessly (and fast), so the capability is there, just the apps are not up to par. Unfortunately I missed my return window on this device, so its likely going to collect dust after I grab an Apple TV.
The Nexus 7 tablet looks nice and the price is definitely right, so I'm likely going to buy one once the local store has them in stock, but being burned several times already, I'm understandably quite skeptical still... It seems like Google has finally got the OS to a fast/stable point with Jelly Bean, its just a matter for the app developers to catch up.
There is no doubt though, in my opinion the Android app quality has yet to compare to the iOS app quality. Sure there are the odd high-budget apps like Angry Birds or something that is virtually identical on either platform, but the apps I use on a regular basis on my iPhone have no equivalent on Android yet.
You can't fault me for not trying, I own an iPhone and iPad because they just work and they have everything I need, but I hate many of the things Apple does and I would like nothing more than to see them fail, but I'm just not willing to give up my iPhone/iPad until there something at least equal or better.
I highly doubt they will license another engine given their recent Source Filmmaker work. Thats an impressive piece of technology and I have a hard time seeing them let it all go to waste.
"And we’ve removed plastics wherever possible, in favor of materials that are more highly recyclable, more durable, more efficient and longer lasting. "
This is flawed thinking, for the following reasons:
- Credit card companies don't actually lend money, its really the bank who puts their name on the card that is lending the money. Credit card companies make money off the transactions that flow over their network. - When fraud occurs, its usually the merchant who is left holding the bag, not the credit card company or the bank. - When merchants get left holding the bag, they pass the costs on to you the customer.
Therefore it is your money, because every purchase you make pays for fraud that effected you directly and all the other dumb asses who lose their wallet every other week.
But they can have one is the point. Pretty hard to put a password lock on your wallet or physical credit card. Even the chip&pin system only works for in-person purchases, a virtual wallet could at least work over the internet too.
I tend to not trust big corporations much, but even a few rookie developers can at least make the virtual wallet more secure than a physical wallet. How much more is the real question.
The other nice thing is no waiting for new credit cards in the mail when they do get stolen, you could literally have a new one downloaded to your app (on another phone) the same day its stolen.
Does it matter if its compromised by one person or 10,000? The one person who steals your wallet from your car or off the beach when you're not looking can just as easily provide the information to anyone else anyways.
Lets compare the process in each scenario:
Physical Wallet: 1. Thief steals wallet from car. 2. Thief opens wallet, takes credit cards and starts making purchases at physical stores and online.
Virtual Wallet in Phone: 1. Thief steals phone from car. 2. Thief must prevent any radio signal from reaching the phone to prevent a remote wipe. 3. Thief takes the phone home and starts the "hacking" process to gain access first to the phone (password lock) 4. Thief then must gain access to the presumably encrypted virtual wallet app.
If the encryption is done properly, step 4 would be prohibitively expensive and easily buy the 2-24hours it would take to realize your phone is gone and contact your credit card company.
Not only that, but once enough people are using the virtual wallet, I would imagine they would be able to easily switch to using bluetooth or similar protocol that uses some sort of SSL encryption with pre-exchanged keys to prevent any man-in-the-middle attacks at the POS terminal.
If anything this should be more secure than the RFID credit cards already in everyones wallet up here. The phone shouldn't be transmitting any data until the app is opened and a password is entered. Sure someone could be intercepting the transmission at the checkout of the store, but that risk already exists with existing RFID cards and also with merchants not locking down their POS terminals and subjecting themselves to having them replaced with compromised ones.
We used to use these so called "hard" balls explicitly to throw at people with the intent to hit them. I believe they called it a "game"... Ball tag?
Schools will attempt to ban any and everything that could possibly be fun even if there is no chance of someone getting hurt (trading hockey cards was banned from my elementary school), its ridiculous.
I purchased a Motorola Xoom (my first Android device) about a month after it came out... Wow was I ever disappointed. It would crash several times an hour just browsing the web (especially on Motorola's own Xoom website), but I chalked that up to "being an early adopter". Then I started downloading apps from the Android market and things got even worse, if the app even loaded without crashing, I felt like I was teleported back to the late 90's from a design / look & feel standpoint. Other than the rare exceptions ( Angry Birds ) every app I downloaded didn't even compare to a similar app on Apple's App Store, it felt like companies/developers were publishing an app for Android just to say they did it, without the intention of it actually being used. Many apps that did have an iOS counterpart (*cough* thinkorswim *cough*) hadn't been updated in almost a year and were pathetic at best.
Needless to say after two weeks of torture I took it back and purchased an iPad2, I've been quite happy with it.
Hopefully in a few years it will be a different story, I would much prefer if Apple had some decent competition.
Have Google modify their page rank algorithm to give any website accessible through IPV6 a slight boost. The power they hold over website revenues is so huge the SEO industry would go nuts over this and you'll see adoption rates explode.
Release early, release often... In my opinion its worked great for the Kernel folks since v2.6 was released. Does anyone remember the hell that was upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4, and again to 2.6?
The more things that change at once, the greater the pain will be, its as simple as that. Holding back all changes and releasing them all at once with a major version upgrade causes the most pain as possible, and people are reluctant to actually upgrade, so testing is limited.
Instead if they release small changes more often, they will get more testing as more people are willing to risk an upgrade if only a small number of changes occurred, and if something does break, its limited in scope. The key here is that you try not to upgrade too many important parts of the system at once. For instance Xorg should probably never be upgraded at the same time as KDE/Gnome if possible.
For example, if Apache releases a new major version, you can send that out and if something breaks, its pretty easy to roll-back or fix the issue, since only Apache was changed and maybe a couple other minor things.
Instead if you upgrade to a new version of the entire distro, if Apache breaks you don't know if its directly related to Apache, or one of the other 1000 packages on the system. It makes troubleshooting, bug tracking and quality control much more difficult.
Its just a matter of time before TV as we know it will go away in favor of something that is completely On-Demand, which the internet is currently king at providing. Some cable companies have their own On-Demand service, but its horrible at best, and they often charge outrageous amounts for it.
I've had a MythTV box running since about 2001, and prior to that I never owned a TV at all. As cable TV switches from analog to digital with restrictions on what you can/cannot record and the requirement of pricey incompatible set top boxes, it won't be long before MythTV fails to work as well. At that point I will likely drop my cable TV entirely and hopefully Google TV or some other alternative will suffice by then, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
The bottom line is that broadcasting programs at specific times of the day is just horrible practice to begin with. People are too busy nowadays and their schedules fluctuate too much. Who wants to schedule their life around the next episode of "Lost" (gag), only to accidentally miss one and be completely "lost" for the rest of the season.
Luckily for them, most cable TV companies offer the internet as well, because eventually TV subscriptions will disappear along with a vast portion of their revenue.
Everyone of those sites would be much better if they were done in Flash, likely many times faster too. Two of the three virtually froze my browser entirely, and the "presentation" one took over one second to respond to my keypress to turn to the next slide. (Firefox 3.6.5 on Linux)
Again, its not about HTML5 not being able to do what Flash can currently, its about which is better at it *right now*. Flash is hands down the winner there, and the snails pace that is browser innovation means that this will likely stay that way for many years to come.
If you read my post you would notice that I didn't say these things *couldn't* be done in HTML5, I just said that HTML5 and its tools have a *long* way to go to catch up to Flash.
I mean, if you really wanted to, you could write a game engine in ASM, and it would be the "fastest game in the world". That doesn't mean it makes sense to do it, and virtually no one does it these days *for a reason*.
Eventually I see entire web-sites turning into just HTML5 canvas applications to get the necessary features they need, which the end result is basically identical to what Flash offers right now, only with a plugin. At this point it will be all about the developments tools.
When Flash is mentioned people (especially on here) first think of annoying advertisements, video, or games. These may be the most "in your face" implementations of Flash, but the fact of the matter is that Flash is used for MANY other purposes that people may not notice as much, which HTML5 simply cannot touch at all right now.
Nice *interactive* financial graphs on Google, Yahoo, etc, are extremely common, and while there are many HTML5 graphing examples out there, few are interactive at all, and even less are usefully interactive. (dragging to zoom, highlighting, drill-down, etc...)
Flash is also great for writing entire web-based business class applications in, just one example is Google's entire analytics site, it uses Flash extensively, so much so it doesn't work without it.
HTML5 and its related tools still have a *long* way to go to catch up... Flash will be with us for quite a while yet.
Have they done something about the 4GB mailbox limit? Are they still living in the FAT32 world or whats the deal with that anyways?
What about automatically moving attachments out of the bloated mbox file and into their own directory? I know they have extensions to do this manually, but tedious tasks such as these are what computers are good at, it should be automatic, especially if they limit the size of a mailbox to something archaic like 4gb.
As much as I would like to use Thunderbird, these two things are pretty much deal breakers for me.
The reason you had to enter the employee ID first is likely because it was doing a 1:1 match on the fingerprint, which in most devices I've used is done at a MUCH lower threshold than a 1:many search.
On any decent device these thresholds (1:1 and 1:many) can usually be set separately and what can often happen is that the employees aren't properly trained how to use them (yes, there should be training) so they run into all sorts of issues with failed scans, so rather than train the employees they just set the thresholds so low that 1:many searches don't actually work, and 1:1 matches are virtually useless.
Even the "lowest tech" scanner can differentiate between a toe, hotdog and finger without any issues at all.
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thunderbird has the same problem as firefox, the UI is horribly slow its almost unusable.
I use Thunderbird because its the only real email client in Linux with decent calendar integration that isn't Evolution (which itself has both eaten email and crashed several times to the point where it won't start again without having to clear out all my settings and start fresh).
Thunderbird with IMAP and the lightning extension installed routinely (like 20x per day) locks up for 5-10 seconds and shows wrong messages (or no message) when quickly switching between new emails. If they actually used multiple threads/processes for the UI so it respond to user interaction while doing other things it would be much better.
In a free market, its competition... If your competitor comes up with a one-time vaccine, even if it cost 10x as much, it would render the "one-a-year" guys obsolete overnight.
Of course when collusion is involved, they would just make a gentleman's agreement to not research a one-time vaccine, or keep it behind closed doors until such time as someone outside the agreement figures it out, then magically bring it to market.
Actually, it sounds like a network engineer asking how to better utilize the terrabits of available DOWNSTREAM bandwidth that Amazon has available. Running servers by its very nature primarily uses UPSTREAM bandwidth (serving content), so having people send them loads of data often and rarely reading it I'm sure will do wonders to better utilize that available bandwidth, not to mention backups/archives often happen during non-peak periods its a win-win for Amazon.
I want to own a good Android device, I really do, but its just not quite there yet...
Android 2.2/2.3 I just didn't like one bit and felt very sluggish, unpolished and the upgrade path for Android devices being what it is, I'm not willing to drop $600-700 on a phone that won't upgrade to the latest OS in a year. But when Honeycomb was released I decided to purchase a Xoom... Wow, was that the biggest purchasing mistake I've made in a while. It was complete garbage, I couldn't browse the web for more than 15 mins without the browser crashing, especially when visiting Motorola's own support forum. I kept it as long as I could in case an update was released to fix the problem, but that didn't materializes within the return period.
More recently I was going to purchase an Apple TV but instead grabbed a Pivos Xios that runs Ice Cream Sandwich... So far that has turned out to be another major mistake. The UI is garbage for the TV, even with the "sense" remote which acts like a mouse (but only works in a limited number of apps). Apps don't scale to the TV size well at all, the fonts are either too small or too big, icons too small or too big, or there is a ton of wasted space. The device itself is stable, but apps crash all the time, especially Netflix and many other video apps and they are all extremely slow to use, it can take 5-10 seconds to see a response just from clicking on something in Netflix. For a box designed to watch movies this is obviously unacceptable... The only exception so far has been Google Play which seems to work flawlessly (and fast), so the capability is there, just the apps are not up to par. Unfortunately I missed my return window on this device, so its likely going to collect dust after I grab an Apple TV.
The Nexus 7 tablet looks nice and the price is definitely right, so I'm likely going to buy one once the local store has them in stock, but being burned several times already, I'm understandably quite skeptical still... It seems like Google has finally got the OS to a fast/stable point with Jelly Bean, its just a matter for the app developers to catch up.
There is no doubt though, in my opinion the Android app quality has yet to compare to the iOS app quality. Sure there are the odd high-budget apps like Angry Birds or something that is virtually identical on either platform, but the apps I use on a regular basis on my iPhone have no equivalent on Android yet.
You can't fault me for not trying, I own an iPhone and iPad because they just work and they have everything I need, but I hate many of the things Apple does and I would like nothing more than to see them fail, but I'm just not willing to give up my iPhone/iPad until there something at least equal or better.
I highly doubt they will license another engine given their recent Source Filmmaker work. Thats an impressive piece of technology and I have a hard time seeing them let it all go to waste.
"And we’ve removed plastics wherever possible, in favor of materials that are more highly recyclable, more durable, more efficient and longer lasting. "
Longer lasting materials? Too bad that doesn't include OSX...
Apparently they don't take into account the environmental impact of instantly making millions of devices obsolete in a single software update.
This is flawed thinking, for the following reasons:
- Credit card companies don't actually lend money, its really the bank who puts their name on the card that is lending the money. Credit card companies make money off the transactions that flow over their network.
- When fraud occurs, its usually the merchant who is left holding the bag, not the credit card company or the bank.
- When merchants get left holding the bag, they pass the costs on to you the customer.
Therefore it is your money, because every purchase you make pays for fraud that effected you directly and all the other dumb asses who lose their wallet every other week.
But they can have one is the point. Pretty hard to put a password lock on your wallet or physical credit card. Even the chip&pin system only works for in-person purchases, a virtual wallet could at least work over the internet too.
I tend to not trust big corporations much, but even a few rookie developers can at least make the virtual wallet more secure than a physical wallet. How much more is the real question.
The other nice thing is no waiting for new credit cards in the mail when they do get stolen, you could literally have a new one downloaded to your app (on another phone) the same day its stolen.
Does it matter if its compromised by one person or 10,000? The one person who steals your wallet from your car or off the beach when you're not looking can just as easily provide the information to anyone else anyways.
Lets compare the process in each scenario:
Physical Wallet:
1. Thief steals wallet from car.
2. Thief opens wallet, takes credit cards and starts making purchases at physical stores and online.
Virtual Wallet in Phone:
1. Thief steals phone from car.
2. Thief must prevent any radio signal from reaching the phone to prevent a remote wipe.
3. Thief takes the phone home and starts the "hacking" process to gain access first to the phone (password lock)
4. Thief then must gain access to the presumably encrypted virtual wallet app.
If the encryption is done properly, step 4 would be prohibitively expensive and easily buy the 2-24hours it would take to realize your phone is gone and contact your credit card company.
Not only that, but once enough people are using the virtual wallet, I would imagine they would be able to easily switch to using bluetooth or similar protocol that uses some sort of SSL encryption with pre-exchanged keys to prevent any man-in-the-middle attacks at the POS terminal.
If anything this should be more secure than the RFID credit cards already in everyones wallet up here. The phone shouldn't be transmitting any data until the app is opened and a password is entered. Sure someone could be intercepting the transmission at the checkout of the store, but that risk already exists with existing RFID cards and also with merchants not locking down their POS terminals and subjecting themselves to having them replaced with compromised ones.
We used to use these so called "hard" balls explicitly to throw at people with the intent to hit them. I believe they called it a "game"... Ball tag?
Schools will attempt to ban any and everything that could possibly be fun even if there is no chance of someone getting hurt (trading hockey cards was banned from my elementary school), its ridiculous.
I purchased a Motorola Xoom (my first Android device) about a month after it came out... Wow was I ever disappointed. It would crash several times an hour just browsing the web (especially on Motorola's own Xoom website), but I chalked that up to "being an early adopter". Then I started downloading apps from the Android market and things got even worse, if the app even loaded without crashing, I felt like I was teleported back to the late 90's from a design / look & feel standpoint. Other than the rare exceptions ( Angry Birds ) every app I downloaded didn't even compare to a similar app on Apple's App Store, it felt like companies/developers were publishing an app for Android just to say they did it, without the intention of it actually being used. Many apps that did have an iOS counterpart (*cough* thinkorswim *cough*) hadn't been updated in almost a year and were pathetic at best.
Needless to say after two weeks of torture I took it back and purchased an iPad2, I've been quite happy with it.
Hopefully in a few years it will be a different story, I would much prefer if Apple had some decent competition.
If I was an IPV6 only user, I would want IPV6 pages to rank higher than IPV4 pages which I wouldn't be able to access anyway.
Though, Google may already be doing that...
Have Google modify their page rank algorithm to give any website accessible through IPV6 a slight boost. The power they hold over website revenues is so huge the SEO industry would go nuts over this and you'll see adoption rates explode.
Release early, release often... In my opinion its worked great for the Kernel folks since v2.6 was released. Does anyone remember the hell that was upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4, and again to 2.6?
The more things that change at once, the greater the pain will be, its as simple as that. Holding back all changes and releasing them all at once with a major version upgrade causes the most pain as possible, and people are reluctant to actually upgrade, so testing is limited.
Instead if they release small changes more often, they will get more testing as more people are willing to risk an upgrade if only a small number of changes occurred, and if something does break, its limited in scope. The key here is that you try not to upgrade too many important parts of the system at once. For instance Xorg should probably never be upgraded at the same time as KDE/Gnome if possible.
For example, if Apache releases a new major version, you can send that out and if something breaks, its pretty easy to roll-back or fix the issue, since only Apache was changed and maybe a couple other minor things.
Instead if you upgrade to a new version of the entire distro, if Apache breaks you don't know if its directly related to Apache, or one of the other 1000 packages on the system. It makes troubleshooting, bug tracking and quality control much more difficult.
Its just a matter of time before TV as we know it will go away in favor of something that is completely On-Demand, which the internet is currently king at providing. Some cable companies have their own On-Demand service, but its horrible at best, and they often charge outrageous amounts for it.
I've had a MythTV box running since about 2001, and prior to that I never owned a TV at all. As cable TV switches from analog to digital with restrictions on what you can/cannot record and the requirement of pricey incompatible set top boxes, it won't be long before MythTV fails to work as well. At that point I will likely drop my cable TV entirely and hopefully Google TV or some other alternative will suffice by then, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
The bottom line is that broadcasting programs at specific times of the day is just horrible practice to begin with. People are too busy nowadays and their schedules fluctuate too much. Who wants to schedule their life around the next episode of "Lost" (gag), only to accidentally miss one and be completely "lost" for the rest of the season.
Luckily for them, most cable TV companies offer the internet as well, because eventually TV subscriptions will disappear along with a vast portion of their revenue.
Yup, same experience for me too.
Their flash viewer is nice and smooth with scrolling, supports search and works quite well.
The HTML5 viewer is horrible slow (using Chrome on a quad-core Linux box) and doesn't even support search.
Apparently "just got better" means something entirely different to them then to their users.
Everyone of those sites would be much better if they were done in Flash, likely many times faster too. Two of the three virtually froze my browser entirely, and the "presentation" one took over one second to respond to my keypress to turn to the next slide. (Firefox 3.6.5 on Linux)
Again, its not about HTML5 not being able to do what Flash can currently, its about which is better at it *right now*. Flash is hands down the winner there, and the snails pace that is browser innovation means that this will likely stay that way for many years to come.
If you read my post you would notice that I didn't say these things *couldn't* be done in HTML5, I just said that HTML5 and its tools have a *long* way to go to catch up to Flash.
I mean, if you really wanted to, you could write a game engine in ASM, and it would be the "fastest game in the world". That doesn't mean it makes sense to do it, and virtually no one does it these days *for a reason*.
Eventually I see entire web-sites turning into just HTML5 canvas applications to get the necessary features they need, which the end result is basically identical to what Flash offers right now, only with a plugin. At this point it will be all about the developments tools.
When Flash is mentioned people (especially on here) first think of annoying advertisements, video, or games. These may be the most "in your face" implementations of Flash, but the fact of the matter is that Flash is used for MANY other purposes that people may not notice as much, which HTML5 simply cannot touch at all right now.
Nice *interactive* financial graphs on Google, Yahoo, etc, are extremely common, and while there are many HTML5 graphing examples out there, few are interactive at all, and even less are usefully interactive. (dragging to zoom, highlighting, drill-down, etc...)
Flash is also great for writing entire web-based business class applications in, just one example is Google's entire analytics site, it uses Flash extensively, so much so it doesn't work without it.
HTML5 and its related tools still have a *long* way to go to catch up... Flash will be with us for quite a while yet.
Have you tried using PHP's Xdebug extension with CacheGrind (I prefer KCacheGrind for KDE), it works wonders.
I haven't found any IDE's that integrate such functionality, but I don't really see a need for it as KCacheGrind works so well as it is.
4GB is not huge at all, especially when you consider that it includes all the attachments too.
I currently have about 15GB of mail that I use with Claws Mail, which is nice but also lacking in many areas.
I'm not sure how, since the FAQ for thunderbird clearly states 4GB is the limit unless the file system limits it to something LOWER.
Its actually not a limit on a individual mailbox, its the limit on an entire mailbox folder!
Have they done something about the 4GB mailbox limit? Are they still living in the FAT32 world or whats the deal with that anyways?
What about automatically moving attachments out of the bloated mbox file and into their own directory? I know they have extensions to do this manually, but tedious tasks such as these are what computers are good at, it should be automatic, especially if they limit the size of a mailbox to something archaic like 4gb.
As much as I would like to use Thunderbird, these two things are pretty much deal breakers for me.
The reason you had to enter the employee ID first is likely because it was doing a 1:1 match on the fingerprint, which in most devices I've used is done at a MUCH lower threshold than a 1:many search.
On any decent device these thresholds (1:1 and 1:many) can usually be set separately and what can often happen is that the employees aren't properly trained how to use them (yes, there should be training) so they run into all sorts of issues with failed scans, so rather than train the employees they just set the thresholds so low that 1:many searches don't actually work, and 1:1 matches are virtually useless.
Even the "lowest tech" scanner can differentiate between a toe, hotdog and finger without any issues at all.