That "content distribution tools" was the Flash Media Server, originally developed by Macromedia (which was bought by Adobe). After that, they didn't add or improve anything other than add modern codecs and streaming-formats long after the competition (Red5, ffmpeg) did.
Do you spit on the onion rings before you serve the burgers?
I'm going to side with the professionals here (and those are not Microsofties and their stupid flight-sims): Leave the smart-ass thingies for good code and decent documentation. When the project's done, wrap it up, check the patches in, write documentary and go on to the next project. Don't waste time on funny shit.
Holland (the lowest part of The Netherlands) are protected by a natural dune barrier and a relatively shallow North Sea (and the British Isles) to break the waves.
The Maldives are way out in the pacific ocean. No natural barrier to cover it.
Anyway, Dutch engineer couldn't come up with a practical rescue plan (within budget) for the Maldives. When faced with a similar problem in the 1850s, the Dutch king evacuated all the people of Schokland (now an Unesco world heritage) because they could not save that small and crumbling island 10 miles off the coast.
Buying evacuation-ground is a good idea to preserve their society..
Flash is a great channel to provide commercial products (video, ads, DRM'ed shit). It's no threat at all when Flash isn't abused as website critical table of contents.
To comment on the OP: have you already tried the version 10 release candidate? It's supposed to support new audio API's and hardware acceleration.
There is a reason why we are stuck in one place for 40 years. We are waging a war here! A
War on drugs, war on poverty, war on unsafety and a war on terrorism.
So Most government resources now are being spent on Big Brother things like ID-databases and automated speed-monitoring.
Corporate resources are wasted on Baby-boomers' pet projects like.. uhm.. perfecting things that was here all along, but now nobody wants it anymore.
And the rest of the money gets sucked up by lawyers on patents, copyright and international law.
I fully realize I don't know everything about the desktop or why windows networking can take 30+ seconds to log on (what is it doing?!). If your company has some sort of roaming profiles set up, it might be copying a few Gigabytes of "home directory" over from the server to your desktop.
It also explains the long delay in logging off.
Since governements and corporate organisations all over de world are "cracking down" on people for all sorts of economical, ideological and behavioral docrines nowadays, it sure seem to boil down back to the Nazi regime during the 1930's era. Godwin's Law appears to ridicule and downplay the comparison with, and fear of returning to, that time. It makes social-political discussions impossible, since you cannot seem to bring up the Worst Case examples anymore.
As my Grandparents said about WWII: "This will happen Never Again!". I, for one will always question any fascist law or corporate intimidation and point out Nazi (or emperial) parallels where appropriate.
What if the legislation mandates better computer security and personal responsibility? (employee is accountable when (s)he tampers with the office-laptop or loses USB-stick filled with goverment-data.)
I'd vote for a law like that. it's even good for business - computer security can really become a decent profession.
Linus wouldn't be paying my salery at the end of the month, he'd only be rejecting my patches.
*That's* a big difference with doing a tense presentation of one's "little baby idea that could win them all" being shot down rudely by the CEO himself.
I probably quit talking to mr. Gates at the point when he doesn't even bother to look at me while I'm talking to him. Rude people, these CEO's...
The art of medicine and law is hundreds of years old, while being in "IT" spans mere decades. We happen to be considered the so-called "quacks" of our profession: you cannot see or certify the charlatans (eg. MSCE) from the real educated people in IT.
Wait a few more decades to see the organisations emerge, IF the profession of computer-guy is being seen as an occupation in itself at all!
One of the biggest clients in the Flashmedia server are pr0n / live webcam providers. Not being able to capture streams is a huge advantage to attrack one-time models who don't wish to be haunted by that ghost. Then again, pr0n companies usually don't run Windoze; it can't handle the traffic at peak hours, hard and expensive to operate. So it won't be a quick adoption...
don't send infantry, they get stuck in traffic or the mud. Invest in planes.. Any 737 will do:-) Aim for Rotterdam..
no, forget that, nobody here cares about that city anymore..
Which in fact will be the main reason that whole tax scheme will not fly: it's anti-competative in the European Union. Local sellers of harddrive-MP3 will be put into a disadvantage over the shopowners just across the border in Germany or Belgium.
Anyways, I'd like to start a grey-import of iPods to sell here in Holland.. I'd be rich!:-)
fter the blatantly corrupt money-grab of the previous Olympics, even fewer people care.
The Olympics have been hijacked before in 1936 where Hitler used the O'lympics to prove his racist propaganda.
Apparently this hasn't damaged the image of the Olymics much afterwards.
and half a square inch of the coolchip gives me a nice beercan cooler!!
I believe that a (beer-)can manufacturer (I believe it was Chorus Steel) is experimenting with cooling cans by releasing a harmless gas on opening which has been previously dissolved during the canning procedure.
To vaporise that gas it drained the heat-energy from the drink and therefore instantly cooled it.
It's probably cheaper than Coolchip too.
Which fixed the trick. I'd assume that Perl would figure numeric MySQL fields is implicitly numeric.
Oh well, earned another day's wages at the job!;-)
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It's supposed to be fixed in 7.01 which should be available today..
Or so I've read from various sources.
That "content distribution tools" was the Flash Media Server, originally developed by Macromedia (which was bought by Adobe).
After that, they didn't add or improve anything other than add modern codecs and streaming-formats long after the competition (Red5, ffmpeg) did.
And the 3D-effects are underwhelming at most.
Not really worth half the money of an iPad-like which impresses much more.
Doom was written on a NextStep machine.
'Nuff Said!
Seriously? What are you running? IE??
Safari on a Macbook with a reasonable fast Core Duo 2.. It's terrible!
What? How do you get Spotlight to act as a calculator?
I just tried it, and it works!
Spotlight passes the formula (question) to the calculator and shows the answer next to the calculator icon in the resultlist.
Nice feat!
Do you spit on the onion rings before you serve the burgers?
I'm going to side with the professionals here (and those are not Microsofties and their stupid flight-sims):
Leave the smart-ass thingies for good code and decent documentation. When the project's done, wrap it up, check the patches in, write documentary and go on to the next project. Don't waste time on funny shit.
Jeff Atwood was right when quoting "the best code is no code at all".
Leave the funny eggs for your MySpace website.
Holland (the lowest part of The Netherlands) are protected by a natural dune barrier and a relatively shallow North Sea (and the British Isles) to break the waves.
The Maldives are way out in the pacific ocean. No natural barrier to cover it.
Anyway, Dutch engineer couldn't come up with a practical rescue plan (within budget) for the Maldives. When faced with a similar problem in the 1850s, the Dutch king evacuated all the people of Schokland (now an Unesco world heritage) because they could not save that small and crumbling island 10 miles off the coast.
Buying evacuation-ground is a good idea to preserve their society..
Flash is a great channel to provide commercial products (video, ads, DRM'ed shit).
It's no threat at all when Flash isn't abused as website critical table of contents.
To comment on the OP: have you already tried the version 10 release candidate? It's supposed to support new audio API's and hardware acceleration.
It had to be Germans to establish scientific proof of eugenetics.. :-(
So Most government resources now are being spent on Big Brother things like ID-databases and automated speed-monitoring.
Corporate resources are wasted on Baby-boomers' pet projects like.. uhm.. perfecting things that was here all along, but now nobody wants it anymore.
And the rest of the money gets sucked up by lawyers on patents, copyright and international law.
My guess anyway..
It also explains the long delay in logging off.
Since governements and corporate organisations all over de world are "cracking down" on people for all sorts of economical, ideological and behavioral docrines nowadays, it sure seem to boil down back to the Nazi regime during the 1930's era.
Godwin's Law appears to ridicule and downplay the comparison with, and fear of returning to, that time. It makes social-political discussions impossible, since you cannot seem to bring up the Worst Case examples anymore.
As my Grandparents said about WWII: "This will happen Never Again!". I, for one will always question any fascist law or corporate intimidation and point out Nazi (or emperial) parallels where appropriate.
Godwin's Law should be put againt the wall!
What if the legislation mandates better computer security and personal responsibility? (employee is accountable when (s)he tampers with the office-laptop or loses USB-stick filled with goverment-data.)
I'd vote for a law like that. it's even good for business - computer security can really become a decent profession.
Linus wouldn't be paying my salery at the end of the month, he'd only be rejecting my patches.
*That's* a big difference with doing a tense presentation of one's "little baby idea that could win them all" being shot down rudely by the CEO himself.
I probably quit talking to mr. Gates at the point when he doesn't even bother to look at me while I'm talking to him. Rude people, these CEO's...
The art of medicine and law is hundreds of years old, while being in "IT" spans mere decades.
We happen to be considered the so-called "quacks" of our profession: you cannot see or certify the charlatans (eg. MSCE) from the real educated people in IT.
Wait a few more decades to see the organisations emerge, IF the profession of computer-guy is being seen as an occupation in itself at all!
One of the biggest clients in the Flashmedia server are pr0n / live webcam providers.
Not being able to capture streams is a huge advantage to attrack one-time models who don't wish to be haunted by that ghost.
Then again, pr0n companies usually don't run Windoze; it can't handle the traffic at peak hours, hard and expensive to operate.
So it won't be a quick adoption...
don't send infantry, they get stuck in traffic or the mud. Invest in planes.. Any 737 will do :-) Aim for Rotterdam..
no, forget that, nobody here cares about that city anymore ..
Which in fact will be the main reason that whole tax scheme will not fly: it's anti-competative in the European Union.
:-)
Local sellers of harddrive-MP3 will be put into a disadvantage over the shopowners just across the border in Germany or Belgium.
Anyways, I'd like to start a grey-import of iPods to sell here in Holland.. I'd be rich!
No man, you're talking about Kirk.
James Kirk!
fter the blatantly corrupt money-grab of the previous Olympics, even fewer people care. The Olympics have been hijacked before in 1936 where Hitler used the O'lympics to prove his racist propaganda. Apparently this hasn't damaged the image of the Olymics much afterwards.
To vaporise that gas it drained the heat-energy from the drink and therefore instantly cooled it.
It's probably cheaper than Coolchip too.
Predicting the future, I think Linux will still be productively running on old PC's, while Microsoft has abandoned the whole PC platform long ago.
It took a while before we found out it was stored 'literally' instead of numeric:
$VAR = {
'key' => '23232222',
'key' => '333221222',
}
Which of course didn't do a proper numeric sort.
Now we had to explicitly define the value part of the hash numeric.
$VAR = {
'key' => int($var),
'key' => int($var2),
}
Which fixed the trick. I'd assume that Perl would figure numeric MySQL fields is implicitly numeric.
Oh well, earned another day's wages at the job!