I was thinking more along the lines of "uncharitable." Because, at this point, that is what Real is looking for: Charity. Let's face facts here. Real is a crappy company with a crappy technology. Yes, they were first in the market and, for a time, they were good. But they have been surpassed in quality and performance by Apple and Microsoft and should have died out a long time ago. They have not improved their technology at the same rate as their competitors, seeming to prefer concentrating on how to squeeze even more crap into to their already bloated shovelware. The fact that they are still prevelant on the Net (see: Amazon, Comedy Central) suggests to me that it is probably more the difficulty in migrating to a different content-delivery platform than excellence that keeps them around. (I should disclose, however, that I have not installed the latest version of RealOne. I am just too sick of the spyware, pop-ups and other intrusions that come along with it.)
This isn't arrogance on Apple's part. It is a sound business decision.
In other news, I am very impressed with your id #. I think 137 is the lowest I have seen here.
For that, you have to buy the book, "Rich Fool, Poor Fool" for $14.95, the audio program "How to Be A Fool for No Money Down!" for $750, the video program "The Fool Next Door" for $895 and attend a 7-day training course in Chicago for $3000.
>> Don't forget the whole Windows System, that is required. DirectX and the application won't work without the windows base system (or maybe wine...)
It's much worse than that. I actually tried to install one of these things. Turns out the damn thing requires a computer, too! Lying bastards didn't tell me that I need space on my desk for a monitor, neither! I'll tell you this much. I never had any of these problems with my WebTV!!
While it's great that you didn't take offense at his automatic association of a (psuedo)German passage with a notorious mass murderer, I did.
If his logical reasoning that a passage must be associated with Hitler based solely on the fact that it appeared to be written in German is not, in fact, accurate, please enlighten me as to what the vague alludement is.
As to your point that it would be amusing to imagine Hitler ranting about something as trite as Star Wars, I disagree. Having personally known people who witnessed first-hand the terrifying spectacle of Hitler "ranting", I can assure you that it would be anything but amusing.
Hey, here's one. Wouldn't it be a riot if Charlie Manson came crashing through the front door and, as he and his followers were carving your unborn child out of the womb of your beloved wife, he merrily nattered away on the unjust treatment of construction workers contracted on the Death Star? Yeah, that would be just fucking hilarious.
On second thought, yeah, you're right. The image of Hitler ranting about some crappy B-grade movie would be a real side-splitter. Too bad we'll never get to truly appreciate the comedic genius that is Adolf Hitler.
It's the same "Family Values" crap that they ran on last time. It *is* an election year, after all, and the Republicans are hard pressed to come up with issues that they can be strong on.
Yes, I agree, absolutely. Java has been doing great on the desktop and I personally use a number of Java-written tools (JBuilder, JEdit, DBVisualizer). I remember when Java-written tools first appeared (Visual Cafe, anyone?) and they were horrible. Part of this was because of the earlier incarnations of the AWT/Swing toolkit itself, but a lot of it was also due to inexperienced developers (in the sense that they had not written any java-based applications of significant size) writing inefficient code.
My point in my previous post, however, is that Java will not suffer any significant amount of popularity merely because Microsoft does not support Java with the latest version of the runtime out of the box. Flash and Quicktime have both done quite well despite the standard version of IE not shipping with the latest and greatest.
If you want to draw a comparison to Microsoft's own technologies, how many ActiveX controls have you seen in use lately? Apart from the occassional (and irritating) news ticker, I haven't seen all that many. I pay my bills, manage my bank account, watch my investments, shop, read, learn...all online. All without applets and ActiveX. Truth is, there has been a turn away from heavier web pages using Java and ActiveX controls. When you do see them, they're typically on personal web pages and less so on commercial sites. And when you *do* see them on commercial sites, they're usually superfluous (see: news tickers).
No, I think Java will continue to do just fine without Microsoft's (or Sun's) help.
Sun's death would not take Java with it. Quite the contrary, it might just free it up. As for being the only one in the virtual machine market, there are several other companies that produce virtual machines for Java. IBM is one such example, offering both stand alone and clustered VM's. There are several other 3rd party VMs as well as some open source ones.
And, with complete sympathy to those who use Java for developing applets and lament MS' continuing lack of support in their browser, Java's strength, both on the functional and marketable fronts, is on the server-side. Microsoft is still a long way from conquering the middleware/application server market.
Don't forget Star Wars Fan Films. If you're looking for to fix your jonez for a battle, there are a number of good films available. Seeds of Darkness while not having the best actors, does have a well-done battle sequence. To the filmmakers' credit, it is very well crafted and paced, borrowing liberally from Lucas' own style of showing simultaneous battles on multiple fronts.
Two-dimensions are all well and good, but, c'mon, this is the 21st century. If I can't have my "Minority Report"-style glove-and-goggle mix, at least I can browse in 3D! This actually came out a couple of years ago. Fun to play around with.
Please excuse the tackiness of replying to my own story...
In reading one of the links here, I saw an interesting (and unanswered) question raised. What if your registrar goes out of business? One person in this thread mentioned that his registrar had closed shop. Prior to doing that, they changed the registration on his domain to that of the registrar's company and now he can't get it back.
I own a two-letter domain and the possibility of something like this happening is of concern. ICAAN doesn't address this in their FAQ. One thing that they *do* discuss is that they are eliminating two-letter domain names in the.com TLD. You cannot register one anymore. If you have it, you can keep it. But if you lose it, you cannot get it back. Versign et. al. will not allow to register a two-letter domain. The only thing on the ICANN site that comes close to explaining why is this TLD Agreement. While most of my domains are registered through GoDaddy, I keep my two-letter domain with Verisign. They seem to have the greater chance of longevity.
Does anyone know what recourse is available if a register closes shop?
This is true, we are in a cycle. It's called a "Republican President". Every time one is in the Office, we end up in a recession or worse. Don't believe me? Take a look at an economics book and see for yourself.
Actually, in just about any law firm, it's the paralegal who is responsible for the research. Paralegals are the unsung heros of the legal profession, doing all of the work and getting none of the credit. The basic difference between a (good) paralegal and an attorney is a couple years of school (although some go up through getting their Masters degree), a bar exam, and paralegals don't litigate in court.
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Since when does the RIAA get mod points here?
>>Great. You listed the books and videos but forgot to give me the Amazon links.
My bad: Here ya go!
I was thinking more along the lines of "uncharitable." Because, at this point, that is what Real is looking for: Charity. Let's face facts here. Real is a crappy company with a crappy technology. Yes, they were first in the market and, for a time, they were good. But they have been surpassed in quality and performance by Apple and Microsoft and should have died out a long time ago. They have not improved their technology at the same rate as their competitors, seeming to prefer concentrating on how to squeeze even more crap into to their already bloated shovelware.
The fact that they are still prevelant on the Net (see: Amazon, Comedy Central) suggests to me that it is probably more the difficulty in migrating to a different content-delivery platform than excellence that keeps them around. (I should disclose, however, that I have not installed the latest version of RealOne. I am just too sick of the spyware, pop-ups and other intrusions that come along with it.)
This isn't arrogance on Apple's part. It is a sound business decision.
In other news, I am very impressed with your id #. I think 137 is the lowest I have seen here.
For that, you have to buy the book, "Rich Fool, Poor Fool" for $14.95, the audio program "How to Be A Fool for No Money Down!" for $750, the video program "The Fool Next Door" for $895 and attend a 7-day training course in Chicago for $3000.
>> Don't forget the whole Windows System, that is required. DirectX and the application won't work without the windows base system (or maybe wine...)
It's much worse than that. I actually tried to install one of these things. Turns out the damn thing requires a computer, too! Lying bastards didn't tell me that I need space on my desk for a monitor, neither! I'll tell you this much. I never had any of these problems with my WebTV!!
Fortunately for the rest of us, The **AA is not a legislative body or law enfocement agency.
The sooner people remember this small fact, the sooner they can stop worrying about their parents' basement.
'nuff said.
Yes, the release schedule is planned through 2007, when Order of the Phoenix will be released.
;)
I hear that they're working on a new Star Wars film, too.
While it's great that you didn't take offense at his automatic association of a (psuedo)German passage with a notorious mass murderer, I did.
If his logical reasoning that a passage must be associated with Hitler based solely on the fact that it appeared to be written in German is not, in fact, accurate, please enlighten me as to what the vague alludement is.
As to your point that it would be amusing to imagine Hitler ranting about something as trite as Star Wars, I disagree. Having personally known people who witnessed first-hand the terrifying spectacle of Hitler "ranting", I can assure you that it would be anything but amusing.
Hey, here's one. Wouldn't it be a riot if Charlie Manson came crashing through the front door and, as he and his followers were carving your unborn child out of the womb of your beloved wife, he merrily nattered away on the unjust treatment of construction workers contracted on the Death Star? Yeah, that would be just fucking hilarious.
On second thought, yeah, you're right. The image of Hitler ranting about some crappy B-grade movie would be a real side-splitter. Too bad we'll never get to truly appreciate the comedic genius that is Adolf Hitler.
That, my friend, is a flamebait.
>>Imagine Hitler yelling that last paragraph at the top of his lungs.
>>Wasn't that funny?
So Germans == Nazis?
Thanks for clearing that up, SeinJunkie!
Now, crawl back under your bridge, you little troll.
It's the same "Family Values" crap that they ran on last time. It *is* an election year, after all, and the Republicans are hard pressed to come up with issues that they can be strong on.
My advice: "It's *still* the economy, stupid!"
Last time I checked, Shockwave is not ActiveX.
>> and a lot Smalltalk developers perfectly happy to see Java pushed out of the way
Nobody ever suspects the Smalltalk developers...
Yes, I agree, absolutely. Java has been doing great on the desktop and I personally use a number of Java-written tools (JBuilder, JEdit, DBVisualizer). I remember when Java-written tools first appeared (Visual Cafe, anyone?) and they were horrible. Part of this was because of the earlier incarnations of the AWT/Swing toolkit itself, but a lot of it was also due to inexperienced developers (in the sense that they had not written any java-based applications of significant size) writing inefficient code.
My point in my previous post, however, is that Java will not suffer any significant amount of popularity merely because Microsoft does not support Java with the latest version of the runtime out of the box. Flash and Quicktime have both done quite well despite the standard version of IE not shipping with the latest and greatest.
If you want to draw a comparison to Microsoft's own technologies, how many ActiveX controls have you seen in use lately? Apart from the occassional (and irritating) news ticker, I haven't seen all that many. I pay my bills, manage my bank account, watch my investments, shop, read, learn...all online. All without applets and ActiveX. Truth is, there has been a turn away from heavier web pages using Java and ActiveX controls. When you do see them, they're typically on personal web pages and less so on commercial sites. And when you *do* see them on commercial sites, they're usually superfluous (see: news tickers).
No, I think Java will continue to do just fine without Microsoft's (or Sun's) help.
Don't forget that jobs in the manufacturing sector are up, now that W has re-classified burger flipping as "manufacturing."
Sun's death would not take Java with it. Quite the contrary, it might just free it up. As for being the only one in the virtual machine market, there are several other companies that produce virtual machines for Java. IBM is one such example, offering both stand alone and clustered VM's. There are several other 3rd party VMs as well as some open source ones.
And, with complete sympathy to those who use Java for developing applets and lament MS' continuing lack of support in their browser, Java's strength, both on the functional and marketable fronts, is on the server-side. Microsoft is still a long way from conquering the middleware/application server market.
Don't forget Star Wars Fan Films. If you're looking for to fix your jonez for a battle, there are a number of good films available. Seeds of Darkness while not having the best actors, does have a well-done battle sequence. To the filmmakers' credit, it is very well crafted and paced, borrowing liberally from Lucas' own style of showing simultaneous battles on multiple fronts.
I think you might be asking this in the wrong place. You want these folks.
Or am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a Photoshop contest?
Ah, well. It's April First and I'm the biggest fool of them all...
Two-dimensions are all well and good, but, c'mon, this is the 21st century. If I can't have my "Minority Report"-style glove-and-goggle mix, at least I can browse in 3D! This actually came out a couple of years ago. Fun to play around with.
Please excuse the tackiness of replying to my own story...
.com TLD. You cannot register one anymore. If you have it, you can keep it. But if you lose it, you cannot get it back. Versign et. al. will not allow to register a two-letter domain. The only thing on the ICANN site that comes close to explaining why is this TLD Agreement. While most of my domains are registered through GoDaddy, I keep my two-letter domain with Verisign. They seem to have the greater chance of longevity.
In reading one of the links here, I saw an interesting (and unanswered) question raised. What if your registrar goes out of business? One person in this thread mentioned that his registrar had closed shop. Prior to doing that, they changed the registration on his domain to that of the registrar's company and now he can't get it back.
I own a two-letter domain and the possibility of something like this happening is of concern. ICAAN doesn't address this in their FAQ. One thing that they *do* discuss is that they are eliminating two-letter domain names in the
Does anyone know what recourse is available if a register closes shop?
My prediction: pumping up their revenue figures so they can sell themselves off.
This is true, we are in a cycle. It's called a "Republican President". Every time one is in the Office, we end up in a recession or worse. Don't believe me? Take a look at an economics book and see for yourself.
Or, more likely, the MPAA/RIAA tax.
Or it will start ordering from it's own spam
Great, just what I need. A trojan that needs bigger Trojans than me.
Actually, in just about any law firm, it's the paralegal who is responsible for the research. Paralegals are the unsung heros of the legal profession, doing all of the work and getting none of the credit. The basic difference between a (good) paralegal and an attorney is a couple years of school (although some go up through getting their Masters degree), a bar exam, and paralegals don't litigate in court.