Given the way that morons blame seemingly everything on this administration regardless of whether it's been going on for the last several administrations reaffirms more and more that most liberals are incapable of rational thought. And nothing but partisan aisle hawks.
There are only a handful of issues that are exclusive to the current administration, and even a smaller handful that will be exclusive of following administrations. (Illegal wars, FBI record monitoring, wiretaps, etc....were all done by the prior administration as well.)
If you want to trash the government for being a corrupt, bloated, bureaucratic, double-standard organization. I'm right with you...but as soon as you turn into a partisan aisle hawke and start shouting "Evil W, Evil W, it's all Evil W's fault". You look stupid. And you become a part of the problem rather than the solution.
You stupid or something...??? Don't you know you're supposed to let your TV raise your child. So you can blame everything bad that your child does on some TV show, video game, or anything else you can think of - enabling you to be sue happy and blame someone else for the fact the failure to teach responsibility to your child.
What you're advocating will make your child safer, smarter, and more responsible. Leaving you with no one to sue but yourself.
Responsibility = bad...puts lawyers out of business!
We had Sirius service for a year. My wife tends toward country, and she hated every station they had. Now, I am not into country but even I could tell that all of the country stations on Sirius were for older crowds and did not compare to what I hear on the various radio stations.
Meanwhile, I used to listen mainly to their christian rock station. They then drop it and about a dozen other stations. They encouraged me to listen to Spirit. That'd be like dropping the headbanger's station and telling a metalhead to listen to the Elvis All Day station. Okay, so both may technically fall under rock. But they're worlds apart. Siriusly, you might as well just try towing a 20ft trailer with a Prius.
Stupid, they totally don't get their own markets.
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Maybe this merger will improve the quality of their programming.
The comics was just one example. The problem spans a multitude of topics being deleted. The main issue is hard work put in by people is lost. When this happens 4 out of 10 times - or more. People feel burned.
Most of us are far to busy to waste our time updating Wikipedia if a few snobs just go around deleting the work. What we have is 4% over-ruling the 96% - that's wrong!
So what do we get left with, mainly articles largely copied from existing encyclopedic works. Vast swafts of plagiarism...
When Wikipedia started, many thought it was going to be a storehouse for knowledge. Now, what's deemed useful knowledge is made by a select few. Currently, Wikipedia exists because there is no alternative. Google's announcement of a similar site will end that protection. Watch as Wikipedia either a) changes it's policies or b) has a fairly quick demise within several years.
They'll collect $5 from all of us. And maybe 2 cents will actually reach an artist. In the end, they still will complain about downloading.
If they charge me $5 for P2P, then darn it, I will quit buying CDs and use P2P to make ALL my purchases. And if they sue me, I'll just look to the judge and say...hey I paid my $5 a month.
Of course, the courts will ignore that....
I am so sick of IP rights. I think I support bringing down the copyright and patent offices.
If Wikipedia does not become all-inclusive it will die. most people I know , including myself, are alread jaded by the fact we've created and edited articles only to have them deleted. Simply because the editors think it's useless knowledge or facts cause they're not into it.
Or worse, the web-comic debacle.... controlled by a !@#$% who blatantly cuts out tons of comics and then, pimps out her own never heard of favorite by placing two images and two more references.
And no one can do anything about these editor twits....
Wikipedia sucks arse except for the plagiarized articles.
- The Saj
PS - sorry for the bad typing. It's hard to type with a 7-month old trying to pound on the keys as well.
Look, geeks, nerds & scientists have enough difficulty reproducing. If we add even more criteria to inhibit our reproducing. Humanity will suffer far worse damage in the long run...
a) No you can't count on anything...people might not even be online. That said, Flash Player 9 is already at about 95+% proliferation. And our company's stats pretty much agree with Adobe's published stats.
b) Depends...do you only want to display video? Or would you like to add interactive overlays for say a training tool?
I am so tired of people pushing WiFi as an alternative to Wireless Broadband. It's great for people living in Seattle and drinking Seattle Coffee (Starbuck's).
However, for most of us it's pretty useless. I have had wifi on my phone for a couple of years now. I've used it twice. Once when I first got it, and once to show someone it had it.
There has not been a single time I've needed internet access when there has been an open WiFi network available.
Compare that to driving from Connecticut to Maryland while tethering my laptop to my phone. Doing programming and web development over an EvDO connection nearly the entire time. I lost signal once, and a few times in the boonies I had to drop to 1x (EDGE equivalent snail speed). But much of the trip I had an EvDO connection.
*shrug*
So that's a non-answer to me...but you're forgiven. You've probably never enjoy the joy of having a decent internet connection just about any where you travel.;)
Or SJ would have built a slightly larger iPhone with a bigger battery and given us high speed data via 3G+.
Don't tell me SJ was worried about performance, I tried watching a video via EDGE. Slow is one thing....after three attempts I had not managed to get a single video to play completely without pause, stutters, etc.
Please name a single product that can do everything Flash can do...
Sorry, there just isn't...
***
Yes, there are better video delivery tools.
Yes, SVGs can be used to do animations (except very few people will be able to view them)
And like taxes, you will always have SPAM and adverts...
But if you think that's ALL Flash does, you've not seen Flash based technologies. Nor developed for them...and with the launch of AIR you can now re-use much of your code for desktop applications too.
People keep trying to compare Flash to what it's not and dissing it for not being the best. Rather, than realizing it is a diverse tool, perhaps a Jack-Of-All-Trades master of none. But very powerful in it's own right.
Just for grins and giggles go compare Google's Online Word Processor to Buzzword.com (which had far less resources and far less development time than Google's word processor).
The market has wanted a good PDA Convergence device for a decade now. But hasn't received one. Part of the problem is that we still need these devices, regardless if they're buggy as hell and royally suck, so we're still buying.
iPhone had the chance to be it, sadly, it fell far short on features but climbed very high on interface. Hopefully, later versions will support the features people need and look nice & have good ease of use too.
iPhone = wonderful mobile interface, without any features most people are used too (ie: GPS, Broadband Data, Voice Dial, Copy/Paste, 3rd Party Apps)
versus most other PDA's which have all of that, but in a clunky, buggy, poorly designed interface (ie: WM5 requires 7 clicks in order to close a program by default)
Bought a supposed MP4 camcorder from Panasonic. Except they encapsulated every file in an.asv format. Which Microsoft was supposed to support with their WMP. Except, to this day I can't play any of those files...$400+ down the tubes.
Flash is superb on information delivery systems. However, most people are only familiar with the Flash ads. Which are not made by programmers, and usually are designed to be very annoying.
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If I could...I would...
Perhaps I should have used "excessively even for government...likes to control things".
"China makes California look like a free state!"
Adobe's Online Office Productivity Suite:
:)
Photoshop Express (Photo Editor)
https://www.photoshop.com/express
Buzzword (Word Processor)
http://www.buzzword.com/
Sliderocket (Presentation Software)
http://www.sliderocket.com/
Blist (Spreadsheet)
http://www.blist.com/
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Did you buy stock? I did a while ago...
That China truly likes to control things....be it people or weather.
Given the way that morons blame seemingly everything on this administration regardless of whether it's been going on for the last several administrations reaffirms more and more that most liberals are incapable of rational thought. And nothing but partisan aisle hawks.
There are only a handful of issues that are exclusive to the current administration, and even a smaller handful that will be exclusive of following administrations. (Illegal wars, FBI record monitoring, wiretaps, etc....were all done by the prior administration as well.)
If you want to trash the government for being a corrupt, bloated, bureaucratic, double-standard organization. I'm right with you...but as soon as you turn into a partisan aisle hawke and start shouting "Evil W, Evil W, it's all Evil W's fault". You look stupid. And you become a part of the problem rather than the solution.
Responsibility or something?
Raising a child to be responsible?
You stupid or something...??? Don't you know you're supposed to let your TV raise your child. So you can blame everything bad that your child does on some TV show, video game, or anything else you can think of - enabling you to be sue happy and blame someone else for the fact the failure to teach responsibility to your child.
What you're advocating will make your child safer, smarter, and more responsible. Leaving you with no one to sue but yourself.
Responsibility = bad...puts lawyers out of business!
We had Sirius service for a year. My wife tends toward country, and she hated every station they had. Now, I am not into country but even I could tell that all of the country stations on Sirius were for older crowds and did not compare to what I hear on the various radio stations.
Meanwhile, I used to listen mainly to their christian rock station. They then drop it and about a dozen other stations. They encouraged me to listen to Spirit. That'd be like dropping the headbanger's station and telling a metalhead to listen to the Elvis All Day station. Okay, so both may technically fall under rock. But they're worlds apart. Siriusly, you might as well just try towing a 20ft trailer with a Prius.
Stupid, they totally don't get their own markets.
***
Maybe this merger will improve the quality of their programming.
I mean, this post is talking about a hack on hardware that only exists internally to the Apple development cycle.
Huh...
Either, they hacked this themselves so as to determine how to protect against it. Or this whole story is hogwash and not worth two grains of salt.
The comics was just one example. The problem spans a multitude of topics being deleted. The main issue is hard work put in by people is lost. When this happens 4 out of 10 times - or more. People feel burned.
Most of us are far to busy to waste our time updating Wikipedia if a few snobs just go around deleting the work. What we have is 4% over-ruling the 96% - that's wrong!
So what do we get left with, mainly articles largely copied from existing encyclopedic works. Vast swafts of plagiarism...
When Wikipedia started, many thought it was going to be a storehouse for knowledge. Now, what's deemed useful knowledge is made by a select few. Currently, Wikipedia exists because there is no alternative. Google's announcement of a similar site will end that protection. Watch as Wikipedia either a) changes it's policies or b) has a fairly quick demise within several years.
I've never used P2P, but I still have to pay.
They'll collect $5 from all of us. And maybe 2 cents will actually reach an artist. In the end, they still will complain about downloading.
If they charge me $5 for P2P, then darn it, I will quit buying CDs and use P2P to make ALL my purchases. And if they sue me, I'll just look to the judge and say...hey I paid my $5 a month.
Of course, the courts will ignore that....
I am so sick of IP rights. I think I support bringing down the copyright and patent offices.
If Wikipedia does not become all-inclusive it will die. most people I know , including myself, are alread jaded by the fact we've created and edited articles only to have them deleted. Simply because the editors think it's useless knowledge or facts cause they're not into it.
Or worse, the web-comic debacle.... controlled by a !@#$% who blatantly cuts out tons of comics and then, pimps out her own never heard of favorite by placing two images and two more references.
And no one can do anything about these editor twits....
Wikipedia sucks arse except for the plagiarized articles.
- The Saj
PS - sorry for the bad typing. It's hard to type with a 7-month old trying to pound on the keys as well.
Look, geeks, nerds & scientists have enough difficulty reproducing. If we add even more criteria to inhibit our reproducing. Humanity will suffer far worse damage in the long run...
Go watch this movie...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Does this mean no open-source?
a) No you can't count on anything...people might not even be online. That said, Flash Player 9 is already at about 95+% proliferation. And our company's stats pretty much agree with Adobe's published stats.
b) Depends...do you only want to display video? Or would you like to add interactive overlays for say a training tool?
You must not go very far...
;)
I am so tired of people pushing WiFi as an alternative to Wireless Broadband. It's great for people living in Seattle and drinking Seattle Coffee (Starbuck's).
However, for most of us it's pretty useless. I have had wifi on my phone for a couple of years now. I've used it twice. Once when I first got it, and once to show someone it had it.
There has not been a single time I've needed internet access when there has been an open WiFi network available.
Compare that to driving from Connecticut to Maryland while tethering my laptop to my phone. Doing programming and web development over an EvDO connection nearly the entire time. I lost signal once, and a few times in the boonies I had to drop to 1x (EDGE equivalent snail speed). But much of the trip I had an EvDO connection.
*shrug*
So that's a non-answer to me...but you're forgiven. You've probably never enjoy the joy of having a decent internet connection just about any where you travel.
Why the iPhone should have been on Verizon!
Verizon = best network + suckiest phones
Verizon + iPhone = the best cell platform
I call BULLSHIT...
Or SJ would have built a slightly larger iPhone with a bigger battery and given us high speed data via 3G+.
Don't tell me SJ was worried about performance, I tried watching a video via EDGE. Slow is one thing....after three attempts I had not managed to get a single video to play completely without pause, stutters, etc.
Please name a single product that can do everything Flash can do...
Sorry, there just isn't...
***
Yes, there are better video delivery tools.
Yes, SVGs can be used to do animations (except very few people will be able to view them)
And like taxes, you will always have SPAM and adverts...
But if you think that's ALL Flash does, you've not seen Flash based technologies. Nor developed for them...and with the launch of AIR you can now re-use much of your code for desktop applications too.
People keep trying to compare Flash to what it's not and dissing it for not being the best. Rather, than realizing it is a diverse tool, perhaps a Jack-Of-All-Trades master of none. But very powerful in it's own right.
Just for grins and giggles go compare Google's Online Word Processor to Buzzword.com (which had far less resources and far less development time than Google's word processor).
Yeah...sucks when you encounter an AJAX site that doesn't let you thru too.
Life in a RIA Web World...
Not necessarily true...
The market has wanted a good PDA Convergence device for a decade now. But hasn't received one. Part of the problem is that we still need these devices, regardless if they're buggy as hell and royally suck, so we're still buying.
iPhone had the chance to be it, sadly, it fell far short on features but climbed very high on interface. Hopefully, later versions will support the features people need and look nice & have good ease of use too.
Others do...
iPhone = wonderful mobile interface, without any features most people are used too (ie: GPS, Broadband Data, Voice Dial, Copy/Paste, 3rd Party Apps)
versus most other PDA's which have all of that, but in a clunky, buggy, poorly designed interface (ie: WM5 requires 7 clicks in order to close a program by default)
Couldn't get a single video to play over EDGE completely without jitters or stopping.
If Flash can handle multiple Wii remotes, I am sure it can handle the iPhone's multi-touch screen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNnRrzKuzt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUJBrzGnaSI
Already been hosed on that hope...
.asv format. Which Microsoft was supposed to support with their WMP. Except, to this day I can't play any of those files...$400+ down the tubes.
Bought a supposed MP4 camcorder from Panasonic. Except they encapsulated every file in an
BTW...Panasonic lost my business for life.
Why not a game like Tetris, where you can spin the blocks and use a multi-touch gesture to push into place?
Or a FPS, where you have a button spot for firing, and move the screen around with your fingers?
Actually, Flash/AS3 is one of the best tools for web apps. And Adobe AIR allows for Flash/AS3/AJAX to be used as a desktop app.
Just go check out desktop.ebay.com to see a beta AIR app.
Flash is superb on information delivery systems. However, most people are only familiar with the Flash ads. Which are not made by programmers, and usually are designed to be very annoying.