"It's the antithesis to the democratic way of life - namely that the people should be free to make their own choices - even if they're the "wrong" ones (because too often "wrong" is merely a personal viewpoint). "
So don't by a product you don't like. No one is taking away your freedom of choice! In fact this is giving you more choices. You can choose to decide that you want Apple's walled garden or you can choose a Palm Pre' or an Android phone. By not letting Apple have their little walled garden you would in fact be taking away peoples right to choose. As you put it people have the right to make a wrong choice even if it is to buy an iPhone or iPod.
But it is not the antitheses of the democratic way of life! That statment is nothing short of wrapping ones self in the Flag to just ify ones point.
"People fail to see one very very big factor in the silly HTML5 vs Flash debate: The web is ruled by web DESIGNERS and not developers/coders." The Web is ruled by users. Many websites are for communicating between the company and it's customers. They don't care what the designers want as long as the customer can reach them. If the customer wants to reach them with an iPhone or iPad they will change to allow it. Here is a great example what I consider a terrible flash heavy website. http://www.kawasaki.com/Home/Home.aspx It takes too long to load and is just too busy for my taste. It uses Flash everywhere and will not work on my Android phone or my iPod Touch. So guess what they just launched last week. http://m.kawasaki.com/ There fixed that for you. Works great on mobile devices and is Flash free. Everybody is going to want mobile sites sooner or later. Flash is not suited to mobile sites. Do you want to use the limited bandwidth for animations and fluff? Not to mention the smallish screen. I use the web from my phone a lot. More places need to get on the mobile bandwagon. My wife and I where driving into work and we wanted to call a local place to pick up breakfast. I went to their site and it is terrible. I finally got to page with the phone number and clicked on it to order. How much better would it be if they had had a mobile site? The mobile web is the new internet.
Yes it means that I can play h.264 video on a Linux distro without jumping through hoops.
Honestly just use Debian if you really don't like it. Canonical had three choices. 1. Not include it and cause new users problems. Maybe big enough problems that they stop using Linux 2. Just include it anyway and face a long nasty court battle. 3. Pay for it and include it. Since they already offer Flash and the none GPL video drivers so this not being GPL is no big deal.
1. The student can not turn on the Web cam only the school can. 2. It is still spying and illegal to remotely turn on a recording device and then later recover the data from the device. You know like planting say a tape-recorder in a conference room. 3. They reviews the pictures they got from spying. 4. It seems that they told the student but no where did I see that they informed the parents. 5. What proof do you have that the picture was on the local drive and sent over the net? Even if it was it just doesn't matter. 6. YOU DON"T FREAKING NEED A WEB CAM TO TRACK A LAPTOP! All they need to know was that it was accessing the net from a location that wasn't the school! Frankly WHAT IS DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS is if they really didn't want the laptops to work off campus they could have had it lock if they used it off the school network if it was not insured!
Even if everything you say is right so? They illegally spied on the kid. Jail time.
Really how did they see the kid eating Mike and Ike's candy? And isn't a crime to spy even if you don't look at the data?
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Yea and you can write the program and use it on the iPhone with any tool you want. You just can not sell it in their store. But you can use it on your phone all you want.
Naw I have been wrong so many times it just isn't funny, Apple would never go to Intel! The iPhone will flop because it doesn't have a removable battery or an SDK.
But if you are never wrong you don't try hard enough.
The iPad has a better screen than most netbooks and a longer battery life. I am still waiting for a smartbook. I don't need windows on a mobile device. I have a notebook if I need windows. I can do everything I want on a mobile device just fine with Linux on an ARM. I would like Flash for it until Firefox decides to support H.264 but other than that I really could do everything on Ubuntu running on say a TegraII with a nice screen.
Or privacy. Yes I could just post my family videos on youtube but... Plus if you have an old 128mb drive or an old 256, or 512mb flash drive why not keep using it as a floppy? Just pass it on or lend it out. The other choice is to burn a CD or DVD and just how many of those are in landfills now?
Disposable is the wrong term but I can not think of the a better term. How about giveable or loanable? I don't mind giving someone a cheap flash drive with data on it as a form of transport. Or I don't mind loaning one to someone. Hopefully they will reuse or return it to me for reuse but if that doesn't happen I am not out a large amount of money. Of course I have a 128 MB drive sitting in a drawer that I have no Idea what to do with. Might use that a way to give digital pictures to someone in the future.
You are too paranoid. What I have to wonder is just why you personally are worth the effort it would take to snipe your wireless keyboard and decrypt the bluetooth connection?
My life is just not that interesting. besides what type of protection do you have form a standard tempest attack on your wired keyboard?
Close but Titanium wouldn't work for the heat protection system. They where going to use it for the structure and then use refractory metals for the shingles. Ti is good but no where good enough for the temperatures you will see at reentry. And yes you are correct that there where many designs and refractory metals have their own issues including often being brittle. I believe they even looked at ablative coatings but the problems with the X-15 made them none starters. My big problem was the military requirement for a 1000nm cross range capability which drove up the cost and was never used.
"Google Confirms Android 2.2 Will Support Flash" Will and 2.2 has not shipped yet. AKA it doesn't exist yet.
"http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/05/01/1426209/Flash-Support-Confirmed-For-Android-22?from=rss [slashdot.org]"
"Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2" Let me explain. Will have, announces beta, and confirmed for an unreleased OS all mean that it doesn't exists yet. At least not in the hands of the customer base. And I really guess you didn't bother to read my post so let me show you. "1. Flash on mobile sucks. Adobe likes to flame Apple for not allowing Flash on the iPhone but Adobe has not delivered Flash for Android, WebOS, or RIM. Flash Lite is terrible and out of date and is the only current "Mobile Flash" solution for most people. Yes I know Adobe has Mobile Flash in Beta but that isn't delivered now is it?" Read the last bit. It covers your entire post in a nut shell. A closed beta == not delivered it is vaporware until it ships. Is that really so hard to understand?
Well for five it is over one percent of the cost of the rig. So yes that can add up. Since it uses acoustic signaling it probably also needs power so there is a big ? on if that would have worked. But you are correct that since it didn't have one we may never know. When we get the BPD recovered I hope we will all find out why it failed. It was supposed to have three different systems to shut it off and all three failed.
True but would that have worked when turning the valve didn't?
The failure of the BPD is the core problem and really bothers me. That and the knee jerk reaction I am seeing. My home state of Florida is going back to banning offsore drilling... But they where going to drill for GAS! Which doesn't form slicks! Freak. Well I guess we don't need the money... And the US doesn't need the natural gas...
Actually they really where prepared pretty well for it. There where and are many thousands of feet of booms prepositioned and ready to go. What no one really seems to be talking about is what happened to the blow out preventor? That is the huge question and no one really seems to be asking. This should have never happened. The blow out preventor has no less then three ways to shut off the oil and ALL of them have failed? This has never happened before! Every rig has one of these and if their is some design flaw it really must be found now. That and the explosion that took out the rig was also not an every day kind of thing!
I see all these flames about the oil industry which may be valid but may not be. Truth is if you dive a car you depend on that oil. So less heat and more light is what is really needed IMHO. Oh and BP is going to pay. And since they are not a US company you can bet that Congress will sock it to them big time. The US companies will love that since it will cost them nothing .
Oh and please don't mention clean energy in reference to this. I am sick of hearing idiot energy policy statements.
Solar and wind replace at best coal and natural gas. Only 3% or so of the Electricity in the US is made from oil. Solar and wind do not compete with Oil at all. Electric cars which in theory could reduce our Oil use are not popular yet because of the cost of purchase and range. It has nothing to do with not having enough electricity to run them. Not yet anyway if they sell big then yes the cost of electricity could come into play but we are not there yet.
Solar and wind can reduce carbon by replacing coal. Frankly as can nuclear and even Natural gas since natural gas produces less co2 than coal but not zero. It does nothing to reduce oil at this time. Electric vehicles are good in the city and for some users. Should make great second cars for a lot of people. Cost of the vehicle and not the cost of electricity are the problem with those as well as range. We will see how the Leaf does. I hope they do well.
In the end if you want to be part of the solution and not just bitch about it. 1. Car pool. 2. Get a small car. 3. Check your tire pressure. 4. Clean out your trunk. 5. Use mass transit if it is an option.
Or you could actually try and ration your own gas. Decide how many gallons you can use a week and stick to it. If you are short then you stay home from the movies that night, don't drive to the mall to shop, combine trips. Really folks this ranting really does nothing.
Hey I am a Flash hater and the only Apple device I own is an iPod touch. Allow me to point out why Flash sucks and is a really bad idea:) 1. Flash on mobile sucks. Adobe likes to flame Apple for not allowing Flash on the iPhone but Adobe has not delivered Flash for Android, WebOS, or RIM. Flash Lite is terrible and out of date and is the only current "Mobile Flash" solution for most people. Yes I know Adobe has Mobile Flash in Beta but that isn't delivered now is it? 2. The Flash player is closed. Everyone is dependent on Adobe to port Flash to their platform. Gnash is not a replacement and pretty much proves my point. If Adobe decided that your platform isn't worth the effort you are out of luck. 3. Flash has a less than stellar security record as do Adobe plugins as a whole. 4. It really will have issues with a touch interface. 5. It does have performance issues. It really does use a lot of CPU cycles. Those are the technical reasons. Now the other reasons. How Flash is used! Flash Ads! Crap! Flash menus! What??? Did your heart break when Java buttons when out of fashion? Flash Intros! Good grief where is the skip? Idiot Flash "developers"! Okay this is personal and no not all flash developers are idiots but if your an idiot odds are you will use Flash to fix a problem that isn't broken. I needed to be replaced as the web person at my company. It was taking too much of my time from other tasks. The owners son though that one of his teachers from College was good we hired him. He COULDN"T DO ANYTHING. Yes I am picky. I required that our website load fast, be secure, and work on IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. He produced this terrible site with FLASH MENUS! I know that at least one of our customers is blind and uses a braile device to read our site. His flash prevented that! Then HE FREAKING USED FLASH FOR PAGES OF TEXT! YES FREAKING TEXT! He couldn't get it to look good using CSS! Then when we told him that he couldn't use FLASH FOR TEXT he made a big GIF of the page and posted a huge IMAGE! and IMAGE OF TEXT! Then he had the nerve to tell me that in his opinion that FLASH was as much of a standard way to publish text as HTML and CSS! FREAKING HELL! So yes the day that Flash is only used for silly web games I do not play will be a happy day for me!
When it comes to software I agree but with hardware it becomes a little more complex. Hardware wears out. New Hardware that is faster comes out. If Sun ticks me off as a hardware customer I can always look at Dell, HP, or SuperMicro as a replacement. X86 is getting faster and faster and can be used to replace Sparc based systems with ease. Also I am pretty sure that those manufactures don't charge for firmware updates. Solaris has some really nice features but for many users Linux will work as a replacement. RedHat and Novell will be glad to sell you support If you don't want to go X86 you can turn to IBM or HP for a Power or Itantium based solution. And you can us AIX or HPUX if you don't want Linux.
What part of "BTW the problem is getting worse for closed source software...." did you not understand? There is a growing problem of profitability in the closed source segment as well. It is really sad because I feel over all it is causing a real decline in innovation everywhere in the PC space. Take OpenOffice for example. It's big "feature" is how close to Office it can get. Don't get me wrong because I feel that we need OpenOffice and it serves a vital function. "But Calc SUCKS! OpenOffice FIX CALC IT IS A SLOW PIG". What I don't see is any innovation in the spreadsheet space. Where is a spreadsheet that uses Lisp as it's macro language? Or a Word-processor that uses Python? Maybe on that separates formulas for data like Lotus Improv did way back when? PC software has gotten deadly dull. Show me a new tool or app.
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"It's the antithesis to the democratic way of life - namely that the people should be free to make their own choices - even if they're the "wrong" ones (because too often "wrong" is merely a personal viewpoint). "
So don't by a product you don't like. No one is taking away your freedom of choice!
In fact this is giving you more choices.
You can choose to decide that you want Apple's walled garden or you can choose a Palm Pre' or an Android phone. By not letting Apple have their little walled garden you would in fact be taking away peoples right to choose.
As you put it people have the right to make a wrong choice even if it is to buy an iPhone or iPod.
But it is not the antitheses of the democratic way of life! That statment is nothing short of wrapping ones self in the Flag to just ify ones point.
"People fail to see one very very big factor in the silly HTML5 vs Flash debate: The web is ruled by web DESIGNERS and not developers/coders."
The Web is ruled by users.
Many websites are for communicating between the company and it's customers.
They don't care what the designers want as long as the customer can reach them.
If the customer wants to reach them with an iPhone or iPad they will change to allow it.
Here is a great example what I consider a terrible flash heavy website.
http://www.kawasaki.com/Home/Home.aspx
It takes too long to load and is just too busy for my taste. It uses Flash everywhere and will not work on my Android phone or my iPod Touch.
So guess what they just launched last week.
http://m.kawasaki.com/
There fixed that for you. Works great on mobile devices and is Flash free.
Everybody is going to want mobile sites sooner or later.
Flash is not suited to mobile sites. Do you want to use the limited bandwidth for animations and fluff?
Not to mention the smallish screen.
I use the web from my phone a lot. More places need to get on the mobile bandwagon. My wife and I where driving into work and we wanted to call a local place to pick up breakfast. I went to their site and it is terrible.
I finally got to page with the phone number and clicked on it to order.
How much better would it be if they had had a mobile site?
The mobile web is the new internet.
Yes it means that I can play h.264 video on a Linux distro without jumping through hoops.
Honestly just use Debian if you really don't like it.
Canonical had three choices.
1. Not include it and cause new users problems. Maybe big enough problems that they stop using Linux
2. Just include it anyway and face a long nasty court battle.
3. Pay for it and include it.
Since they already offer Flash and the none GPL video drivers so this not being GPL is no big deal.
So use Ad Hoc distribution.
1. The student can not turn on the Web cam only the school can.
2. It is still spying and illegal to remotely turn on a recording device and then later recover the data from the device. You know like planting say a tape-recorder in a conference room.
3. They reviews the pictures they got from spying.
4. It seems that they told the student but no where did I see that they informed the parents.
5. What proof do you have that the picture was on the local drive and sent over the net? Even if it was it just doesn't matter.
6. YOU DON"T FREAKING NEED A WEB CAM TO TRACK A LAPTOP! All they need to know was that it was accessing the net from a location that wasn't the school!
Frankly WHAT IS DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS is if they really didn't want the laptops to work off campus they could have had it lock if they used it off the school network if it was not insured!
Even if everything you say is right so?
They illegally spied on the kid. Jail time.
Really how did they see the kid eating Mike and Ike's candy?
And isn't a crime to spy even if you don't look at the data?
Yea and you can write the program and use it on the iPhone with any tool you want.
You just can not sell it in their store.
But you can use it on your phone all you want.
Naw I have been wrong so many times it just isn't funny,
Apple would never go to Intel!
The iPhone will flop because it doesn't have a removable battery or an SDK.
But if you are never wrong you don't try hard enough.
The iPad has a better screen than most netbooks and a longer battery life.
I am still waiting for a smartbook. I don't need windows on a mobile device. I have a notebook if I need windows.
I can do everything I want on a mobile device just fine with Linux on an ARM.
I would like Flash for it until Firefox decides to support H.264 but other than that I really could do everything on Ubuntu running on say a TegraII with a nice screen.
Or privacy.
Yes I could just post my family videos on youtube but...
Plus if you have an old 128mb drive or an old 256, or 512mb flash drive why not keep using it as a floppy? Just pass it on or lend it out.
The other choice is to burn a CD or DVD and just how many of those are in landfills now?
Disposable is the wrong term but I can not think of the a better term.
How about giveable or loanable? I don't mind giving someone a cheap flash drive with data on it as a form of transport. Or I don't mind loaning one to someone. Hopefully they will reuse or return it to me for reuse but if that doesn't happen I am not out a large amount of money.
Of course I have a 128 MB drive sitting in a drawer that I have no Idea what to do with. Might use that a way to give digital pictures to someone in the future.
You are too paranoid.
What I have to wonder is just why you personally are worth the effort it would take to snipe your wireless keyboard and decrypt the bluetooth connection?
My life is just not that interesting.
besides what type of protection do you have form a standard tempest attack on your wired keyboard?
Close but Titanium wouldn't work for the heat protection system. They where going to use it for the structure and then use refractory metals for the shingles.
Ti is good but no where good enough for the temperatures you will see at reentry.
And yes you are correct that there where many designs and refractory metals have their own issues including often being brittle.
I believe they even looked at ablative coatings but the problems with the X-15 made them none starters.
My big problem was the military requirement for a 1000nm cross range capability which drove up the cost and was never used.
Nope and your links all agree with me.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/194465/adobe_announces_flash_for_android_beta_testing.html
"Adobe Announces Flash for Android Beta Testing" aka it isn't released yet and it is not an open beta.
http://mashable.com/2010/04/27/android-flash/ [mashable.com]
"Google Confirms Android 2.2 Will Support Flash"
Will and 2.2 has not shipped yet.
AKA it doesn't exist yet.
"http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/05/01/1426209/Flash-Support-Confirmed-For-Android-22?from=rss [slashdot.org]"
"Flash Support Confirmed For Android 2.2"
Let me explain. Will have, announces beta, and confirmed for an unreleased OS all mean that it doesn't exists yet.
At least not in the hands of the customer base.
And I really guess you didn't bother to read my post so let me show you.
"1. Flash on mobile sucks. Adobe likes to flame Apple for not allowing Flash on the iPhone but Adobe has not delivered Flash for Android, WebOS, or RIM. Flash Lite is terrible and out of date and is the only current "Mobile Flash" solution for most people. Yes I know Adobe has Mobile Flash in Beta but that isn't delivered now is it?"
Read the last bit. It covers your entire post in a nut shell. A closed beta == not delivered it is vaporware until it ships.
Is that really so hard to understand?
Well for five it is over one percent of the cost of the rig.
So yes that can add up. Since it uses acoustic signaling it probably also needs power so there is a big ? on if that would have worked. But you are correct that since it didn't have one we may never know.
When we get the BPD recovered I hope we will all find out why it failed. It was supposed to have three different systems to shut it off and all three failed.
More websites that look like ransom notes.
True but would that have worked when turning the valve didn't?
The failure of the BPD is the core problem and really bothers me. That and the knee jerk reaction I am seeing. My home state of Florida is going back to banning offsore drilling... But they where going to drill for GAS! Which doesn't form slicks!
Freak. Well I guess we don't need the money... And the US doesn't need the natural gas...
What does work well in a choppy sea?
They also had dispersant propositioned and ready to go.
BTW nothing works well in high seas.
Actually they really where prepared pretty well for it.
There where and are many thousands of feet of booms prepositioned and ready to go.
What no one really seems to be talking about is what happened to the blow out preventor?
That is the huge question and no one really seems to be asking.
This should have never happened. The blow out preventor has no less then three ways to shut off the oil and ALL of them have failed?
This has never happened before! Every rig has one of these and if their is some design flaw it really must be found now.
That and the explosion that took out the rig was also not an every day kind of thing!
I see all these flames about the oil industry which may be valid but may not be. Truth is if you dive a car you depend on that oil. So less heat and more light is what is really needed IMHO.
Oh and BP is going to pay. And since they are not a US company you can bet that Congress will sock it to them big time. The US companies will love that since it will cost them nothing .
Oh and please don't mention clean energy in reference to this. I am sick of hearing idiot energy policy statements.
Solar and wind replace at best coal and natural gas. Only 3% or so of the Electricity in the US is made from oil.
Solar and wind do not compete with Oil at all.
Electric cars which in theory could reduce our Oil use are not popular yet because of the cost of purchase and range. It has nothing to do with not having enough electricity to run them. Not yet anyway if they sell big then yes the cost of electricity could come into play but we are not there yet.
Solar and wind can reduce carbon by replacing coal. Frankly as can nuclear and even Natural gas since natural gas produces less co2 than coal but not zero. It does nothing to reduce oil at this time.
Electric vehicles are good in the city and for some users. Should make great second cars for a lot of people.
Cost of the vehicle and not the cost of electricity are the problem with those as well as range. We will see how the Leaf does. I hope they do well.
In the end if you want to be part of the solution and not just bitch about it.
1. Car pool.
2. Get a small car.
3. Check your tire pressure.
4. Clean out your trunk.
5. Use mass transit if it is an option.
Or you could actually try and ration your own gas. Decide how many gallons you can use a week and stick to it.
If you are short then you stay home from the movies that night, don't drive to the mall to shop, combine trips.
Really folks this ranting really does nothing.
Hey I am a Flash hater and the only Apple device I own is an iPod touch. :)
Allow me to point out why Flash sucks and is a really bad idea
1. Flash on mobile sucks. Adobe likes to flame Apple for not allowing Flash on the iPhone but Adobe has not delivered Flash for Android, WebOS, or RIM. Flash Lite is terrible and out of date and is the only current "Mobile Flash" solution for most people. Yes I know Adobe has Mobile Flash in Beta but that isn't delivered now is it?
2. The Flash player is closed. Everyone is dependent on Adobe to port Flash to their platform. Gnash is not a replacement and pretty much proves my point. If Adobe decided that your platform isn't worth the effort you are out of luck.
3. Flash has a less than stellar security record as do Adobe plugins as a whole.
4. It really will have issues with a touch interface.
5. It does have performance issues. It really does use a lot of CPU cycles.
Those are the technical reasons.
Now the other reasons.
How Flash is used!
Flash Ads! Crap!
Flash menus! What??? Did your heart break when Java buttons when out of fashion?
Flash Intros! Good grief where is the skip?
Idiot Flash "developers"! Okay this is personal and no not all flash developers are idiots but if your an idiot odds are you will use Flash to fix a problem that isn't broken.
I needed to be replaced as the web person at my company. It was taking too much of my time from other tasks. The owners son though that one of his teachers from College was good we hired him.
He COULDN"T DO ANYTHING.
Yes I am picky. I required that our website load fast, be secure, and work on IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
He produced this terrible site with FLASH MENUS! I know that at least one of our customers is blind and uses a braile device to read our site. His flash prevented that!
Then HE FREAKING USED FLASH FOR PAGES OF TEXT!
YES FREAKING TEXT!
He couldn't get it to look good using CSS!
Then when we told him that he couldn't use FLASH FOR TEXT he made a big GIF of the page and posted a huge IMAGE!
and IMAGE OF TEXT!
Then he had the nerve to tell me that in his opinion that FLASH was as much of a standard way to publish text as HTML and CSS!
FREAKING HELL!
So yes the day that Flash is only used for silly web games I do not play will be a happy day for me!
Thanks that looks kind of interesting. I was hoping for Lisp but Python is still an interesting idea.
When it comes to software I agree but with hardware it becomes a little more complex.
Hardware wears out. New Hardware that is faster comes out.
If Sun ticks me off as a hardware customer I can always look at Dell, HP, or SuperMicro as a replacement. X86 is getting faster and faster and can be used to replace Sparc based systems with ease. Also I am pretty sure that those manufactures don't charge for firmware updates.
Solaris has some really nice features but for many users Linux will work as a replacement.
RedHat and Novell will be glad to sell you support
If you don't want to go X86 you can turn to IBM or HP for a Power or Itantium based solution. And you can us AIX or HPUX if you don't want Linux.
Okay I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Frankly I would say this is a bad move if Sun wants to stay in the Hardware biz.
It may have been a glitch.
The new owners trying merge Sun's customer base into their system. Maybe it is fixed now?
What part of "BTW the problem is getting worse for closed source software. ..."
did you not understand?
There is a growing problem of profitability in the closed source segment as well.
It is really sad because I feel over all it is causing a real decline in innovation everywhere in the PC space.
Take OpenOffice for example. It's big "feature" is how close to Office it can get.
Don't get me wrong because I feel that we need OpenOffice and it serves a vital function. "But Calc SUCKS! OpenOffice FIX CALC IT IS A SLOW PIG".
What I don't see is any innovation in the spreadsheet space.
Where is a spreadsheet that uses Lisp as it's macro language?
Or a Word-processor that uses Python?
Maybe on that separates formulas for data like Lotus Improv did way back when?
PC software has gotten deadly dull. Show me a new tool or app.