How can you say that? I heard that several *hundred* HDTVs have been sold here in Australia... of course, most of those were to television industry executives:)
And what do I do if I'm using Linux? Oh yes, that's right, wait for Macromedia to notice, sneer at the hippies, and then release a version that's slower than the Windows one and months later.
Good Lord, no. Flash's "programming language" is a joke and even worse is what most Flash designers to with it - since they are designers, not programmers. I'm having a hard time explaining fellow designers what Boolean algebra is - again and again and again.
Surely the deficiencies of the language contribute to the brain-dead nature of some of the code. For example, after I'd written something in Flash 5, but then realized that we needed to support Flash 4, I had to rewrite it -- but it used arrays, etc. So the code ends up looking like a nightmare because lots of useful stuff was being done with dynamically generated variables.:/
I really think Flash suffers due to its designer-bias, as well -- the GUI is a nightmare and the scripting language remains, oh, about 75% of the way there.
Annoyingly, Macromedia's still very down on Linux, and we're still waiting for a Flash Player 6 release. Authoring tools for the platform wouldn't hurt, either.
And I actually agree on that point -- it's a shame the Church's greed led it to drop that restriction. I've been reading some things recently about the Vatican Bank and Propaganda Due that fairly make the hair curl...
(I just wanted to make the point that people often use the Shakespeare quotation while forgetting the context of the scene.)
We'll let the representation stand for the deed here.:)
After all, puns that bad don't come along every day...
(I'm reminded of that sequence near the start of one of the Leisure Suit Larry games -- maybe II or III? Anyway, the one with the comic delivering loads of "Take my wife.... please!" jokes, each with the requisite crash of the high hat...)
LOL.. this is almost funny. I love the fact that it is THE one guy in the hot seats fault. Not Congress. Not the SEnate. Not the last eight YEARS of ignoring signs and worrying about guys selling sawed off shotguns in the mountains rather than corporate scandal and greed.
Bush may not personally be responsible, but he and his father are so much involved in this sort of behaviour, and have been throughout their careers, that it's good to see the chickens coming home to roost.
I personally wouldn't be investing unless I had enough money to be a whale, rather than plankton, so to speak. Otherwise I'd be gambling on other people's honesty and the mechanisms of the State for reparation... and neither prospet fills me with confidence.
Hate to be a bible quoter.. but "Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
Isn't that specific phrasing from Hamlet, and wasn't Polonius being represented as a sanctimonious fool throughout the play?
All true... except that 'sid' is to be the permanent name for the unstable branch, while the next distro will take its name from whatever testing has become now. Sid was the evil kid from Toy Story 1, given to strange experiments and broken toys... also, it stands for "still in development".
If there's a gap in the market, people will fill it. i.e. if there's a large enough need for commercial support of Debian, surely people will form companies to do the job and take that money? I know it's a chicken-and-egg thing, but companies that offer support for other Linux distros could add support pretty easily.
When Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the distinguished musical satirist Tom Lehrer decided that he could no longer perform. "It was at that moment that satire died," says Lehrer, "There was nothing more to say after that."
It would be neat if they pulled that one, because it is very clearly an anti-trust violation as defined by the appeals court for their case.
Like they care. They might get another spanking, and then be sent to their room without any dinner... it's not as if anyone has the balls to impose a serious punishment, or the political backing to make it stick.
Speaking of Viagra, here in Australia (and, I presume, around the world) Pfizer launched a new advertising campaign during the World Cup, using Pele as their spokesmodel.
The gist of it was "I'm not impotent; I don't know if anybody I played football against in my entire career was ever impotent; but if we were, we should have talked to our doctors." What the fuck? Why take advice on impotence medicine from men too caught up in their macho personae to ever admit to the possibility of being unable to achieve an erection just once in 40-odd years of sexual activity? I'm sure all that money and fame must be a huge aphrodisiac -- and I've heard rumours that he'd scored more chicks than he had goals, if you know what I mean -- but surely all that physical exercise can tire a boy out a bit at times...
Hell, just imagine if we ran our medical system this way: "well, we eliminated the 10% of our customers who use 90% of our services, and wow! are hospitals ever efficient now!". And in this case it's more like 5/95%.
However, only in a socialist health care system are those 5% paying 5% of the costs -- in a more capitalist situation those 5% using 95% of resources will be paying something more commensurate with what they use, or their insurers will, which is much the same thing for these purposes.
The assumption with, e.g., cable ISPs is that every customer pays the same amount and expects a similar amount of service -- if 10% of your customers use 90% of the bandwidth, and if half of that 10% are actually using, say, 75% of the bandwidth, at what point is the ISP justified in saying 'Screw it' and dropping those customers? If they're losing money on them anyway, and decide not to renew their contracts, it must be a win-win situation for them -- or they could raise charges to those customers until it was economic to carry them again.
So, distributing copyrighted materials is worse than such "petty criminal activity" as drive-by shootings, drug sales, and car theft?
Yes, you see, piracy actually affects rich people, making them marginally less rich. Obviously a worse crime than drive-by shootings, drug sales, and car theft, which in the main happen in the poorer segment of the community.
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How can you say that? I heard that several *hundred* HDTVs have been sold here in Australia... of course, most of those were to television industry executives :)
And what do I do if I'm using Linux? Oh yes, that's right, wait for Macromedia to notice, sneer at the hippies, and then release a version that's slower than the Windows one and months later.
Grrrr.
Good Lord, no. Flash's "programming language" is a joke and even worse is what most Flash designers to with it - since they are designers, not programmers. I'm having a hard time explaining fellow designers what Boolean algebra is - again and again and again.
:/
Surely the deficiencies of the language contribute to the brain-dead nature of some of the code. For example, after I'd written something in Flash 5, but then realized that we needed to support Flash 4, I had to rewrite it -- but it used arrays, etc. So the code ends up looking like a nightmare because lots of useful stuff was being done with dynamically generated variables.
I really think Flash suffers due to its designer-bias, as well -- the GUI is a nightmare and the scripting language remains, oh, about 75% of the way there.
Annoyingly, Macromedia's still very down on Linux, and we're still waiting for a Flash Player 6 release. Authoring tools for the platform wouldn't hurt, either.
What about The Glorious MEEPT? Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified? Hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants? Penis birds?
:)]
Goatse.cx is about the only thing from those days to have survived...
[Nostalgic about old Slashdot trolls? I'm beginning to worry about myself. Feel free to mod me down for this.
I bow my head to the master. :)
And I actually agree on that point -- it's a shame the Church's greed led it to drop that restriction. I've been reading some things recently about the Vatican Bank and Propaganda Due that fairly make the hair curl...
(I just wanted to make the point that people often use the Shakespeare quotation while forgetting the context of the scene.)
We'll let the representation stand for the deed here. :)
After all, puns that bad don't come along every day...
(I'm reminded of that sequence near the start of one of the Leisure Suit Larry games -- maybe II or III? Anyway, the one with the comic delivering loads of "Take my wife.... please!" jokes, each with the requisite crash of the high hat...)
Um, shouldn't that be "at the breeding edge of technology"?
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:)
Thank you, thank you, I'll take those groans as my applause
LOL.. this is almost funny. I love the fact that it is THE one guy in the hot seats fault. Not Congress. Not the SEnate. Not the last eight YEARS of ignoring signs and worrying about guys selling sawed off shotguns in the mountains rather than corporate scandal and greed.
Bush may not personally be responsible, but he and his father are so much involved in this sort of behaviour, and have been throughout their careers, that it's good to see the chickens coming home to roost.
I personally wouldn't be investing unless I had enough money to be a whale, rather than plankton, so to speak. Otherwise I'd be gambling on other people's honesty and the mechanisms of the State for reparation... and neither prospet fills me with confidence.
Hate to be a bible quoter.. but "Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
Isn't that specific phrasing from Hamlet, and wasn't Polonius being represented as a sanctimonious fool throughout the play?
All true... except that 'sid' is to be the permanent name for the unstable branch, while the next distro will take its name from whatever testing has become now. Sid was the evil kid from Toy Story 1, given to strange experiments and broken toys... also, it stands for "still in development".
Otherwise known as 'lossy' compression :)
You might want to check out lzip...
I was quite appalled to read this:
Where did you read this? It wasn't in the linked article, and Google didn't help me at all.
Talk about putting words into the mouths of your opponents.
If there's a gap in the market, people will fill it. i.e. if there's a large enough need for commercial support of Debian, surely people will form companies to do the job and take that money? I know it's a chicken-and-egg thing, but companies that offer support for other Linux distros could add support pretty easily.
It would be neat if they pulled that one, because it is very clearly an anti-trust violation as defined by the appeals court for their case.
Like they care. They might get another spanking, and then be sent to their room without any dinner... it's not as if anyone has the balls to impose a serious punishment, or the political backing to make it stick.
But some of us prefer the more traditional spelling...
[from the Latin, medius middle + aevum age]
Speaking of Viagra, here in Australia (and, I presume, around the world) Pfizer launched a new advertising campaign during the World Cup, using Pele as their spokesmodel.
The gist of it was "I'm not impotent; I don't know if anybody I played football against in my entire career was ever impotent; but if we were, we should have talked to our doctors." What the fuck? Why take advice on impotence medicine from men too caught up in their macho personae to ever admit to the possibility of being unable to achieve an erection just once in 40-odd years of sexual activity? I'm sure all that money and fame must be a huge aphrodisiac -- and I've heard rumours that he'd scored more chicks than he had goals, if you know what I mean -- but surely all that physical exercise can tire a boy out a bit at times...
Blockout for the Atari Lynx was great -- actually my favourite Lynx game, of the 40 or so I own :)
I also played the Amiga and arcade versions, but neither was quite the same...
Hell, just imagine if we ran our medical system this way: "well, we eliminated the 10% of our customers who use 90% of our services, and wow! are hospitals ever efficient now!". And in this case it's more like 5/95%.
However, only in a socialist health care system are those 5% paying 5% of the costs -- in a more capitalist situation those 5% using 95% of resources will be paying something more commensurate with what they use, or their insurers will, which is much the same thing for these purposes.
The assumption with, e.g., cable ISPs is that every customer pays the same amount and expects a similar amount of service -- if 10% of your customers use 90% of the bandwidth, and if half of that 10% are actually using, say, 75% of the bandwidth, at what point is the ISP justified in saying 'Screw it' and dropping those customers? If they're losing money on them anyway, and decide not to renew their contracts, it must be a win-win situation for them -- or they could raise charges to those customers until it was economic to carry them again.
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So, distributing copyrighted materials is worse than such "petty criminal activity" as drive-by shootings, drug sales, and car theft?
Yes, you see, piracy actually affects rich people, making them marginally less rich. Obviously a worse crime than drive-by shootings, drug sales, and car theft, which in the main happen in the poorer segment of the community.
Decrease memory usage. Speed it up.
I know, but I assumed that moderators would think (+1, Funny && -1, Troll) and leave well enough alone :)
They don't need much more though -- after all, 640 KB should be enough for anyone. :)