You got it. Point and click is great for doing things that you have to do rarely. For tasks you have to often the keyboard rules. Think about typing as an example. If you took a person that didn't know how to type at all then a keyboard on the screen with the letters in alphabetical order would be much faster then teaching them how to type. A system that has been in use for years has probably evolved in to a very efficent system. The companies are willing to put in the time up front to train people to use them so speed is more important being intuitive. Think of programs like vi, emacs, and Unix vs Wordpad and Windows.
"Oh, and to the other posts that keep talking about 'attached to the wings'...Um, B-52s don't have anything attached to their wings except engines. The weapons would have been in the internal bay. " The B-52H has two under wing pylons that can carry many different types of weapons. Last time I checks the ACMs could only be carried externally while the ALCM can be carried internally.
"I thank the Gods it was interpreted and thus included the source code. " Huhhh? interpreted Cobol? I haven't seen a Cobol interpreter since I worked on a SuperPet back in the dark ages? BTW the SuperPet was a great system for schools. I had Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, APL, Basic, and an Assembler. What was best of all the where all interpreters with the possible exception of the Assembler.
"Also, there's the fact that everybody already has Flash, so you have to fight the market inertia to get a foothold." Same problem that Microsoft faces with Silverlight. But then they also faced that mediaplayer "Everybody already had Real", and with MSN messanger, "Everybody already had ICQ or AIM", and with IE, "Everybody already uses Netscape". Of course Microsoft has the ability to push Silverlight out to every windows box. I understand why GASH exists but it just pains me. With all the problems the FOSS community has had with Flash the lack of interest in developing not a copy but a better system just bugs me. The FOSS community now has a great collection of codecs available from the Ogg project. Vorbis and FLAC for music, Speex for speech, and Theora for video. They have shown that they can develop some great languages like Python, Ruby, and Lua. So why not a replacement for Flash that is better than Flash? That is after all exactly what Microsoft is doing.
"This kind of screw up is a career ending move." That is probably the best outcome. Can you say dereliction of duty? I would bet that people are going to facing jail time for this one. Your right when it comes to special weapons the military really doesn't play around. I just wonder what poor enlisted guy at Barksdale thought when he found out they still had the warheads. That must have been an oh crap moment. If you don't raise the alarm fast enough your in deep trouble. If you are wrong you are in deep trouble. Is there even a protocal for dealing with that kind of a mistake? Kind of a man I hope I am right but I really wish I am wrong moment.
Will Moonlight be released as GPL missing the codecs of course?
Any chance that moonlight might support formats that Silverlight doesn't like Theora and the rest of Ogg? If so any chance of it being ported as a plugin for IE?
I like the idea of embracing and extending Microsofts standards for a change:)
"Put briefly, Adobe Flex is in beta of it's 4th major version, and it's what Adobe is offering for programming targeting the Flash Player. For a programmer, it is worlds better than Flash."
"Silverlight might be awesome, I haven't touched it, but everything you said about it are all the same improvements over Flash that Flex has been doing for years now."
If it is still in beta how has it been doing anything for years???? It is a long beta then and still isn't out? Microsoft's system as much as I hate to say is now out. Flex is still in beta.
That is probably impossible. They may use code they bought and can not make FOSS. Other than that it could work. They would still make money off the authoring software.
Early adoptors always pay too much. I was looking at the new Razor2 which I wanted until I saw the price. It is as expensive as the iPhone! Oh well maybe I will be jumping to AT&T unless sprint offers me a super deal.
16gigs == 16 hours of video. Seem like a lot to me. What was expecting was a wifi link between the iPod and the Touch/iPhone. A way to allow you to use the iPod Classic as mass storage for your Touch/iPhone or if you like a way to use your iPhone/Touch as a display for your iPod Classic. What I wonder is can I play music and or video stored on an iTunes server over the Touch on my own wifi network?
I doubt it. I think you would have to look long and hard to find any company that hates Microsoft more than Novell. Novell made a deal to work on the networking of OS/2 with Microsoft. They came out on the short end of the stick there. Netware has been the real looser to Microsoft's Server push. They also bought Unix but didn't market that well so they sold off the marketing rights to SCO and then with the help of Microsoft that came back and bit them in the rear hard. I think that any deal you see between Novell and Microsoft will be very carefully looked at by Novell and for the benefit of Novell.
But then why the deal with Microsoft? Real simple. I think it was Microsoft paying Novell off for not going after them when the whole SCO deal came crashing down. I think Novell took a pile of cash an access to Microsoft Patents in exchange with a promise to not go after them for their involvement in the SCO nightmare. Just my guess.
Yes I do but I don't want another version of FLASH! Flash just sucks. It really does. Action Script is a terrible language there are all sorts of issues with flash.
Why doesn't the FOSS community come up with a replacement for Flash and not just a copy? Make a plug in for IE and get Firefox, Opera, and Safari to include it in their browsers? Make it FOSS BSD please so the embedded people can use it for their systems. Use Ogg for the codecs. And write good authoring tools. Make it good, open, and free.
I am looking forward to reviews of the new drivers. I need a new Video board and an 1950 would be a nice card for the money. But they are not supporting the all in wonder boards so that is a big negative for me. And they are not supporting their older GPUs which is also a negative for me.
So I will have to be in the wait and see mode. As far as openness? Well I use nVidia now. If I have a choice between two good boards with good drivers I will pick the one that are GPL. Intel isn't an option since I currently have AMD systems and I like them.
No they have not been. The emissions for car diesel engines in some of the states has been way higher than those in Europe. The other problem is diesel fuel in the US was allowed to have much higher amounts of sulfur than Europe. The new requirements I think they are called Tier 4 Bin 5 are much stricter and cars that pass that will be okay to sell in all 50 states. The US has had the most strict emissions and safety requirements for years. That is one reason that many European cars just where not available in the US.
I have to say that it is a good idea. Is there a wireless keyboard for the wii yet? Some of the folks might like to use web based email so a keyboard would be handy.
"it's a bad idea to install a huge framework just for a single program (yeah, Azureus, but that's pretty much the only big one), " How about Eclipse.org? Java is very popular in the business world. When it comes to client software the three popular ways to go are Visual Basic, Java, and Web. Frankly Web is a bad fit for a lot of client work. Visual Basic means your stuck with what Microsoft gives you and a lot of people are really cranky over VB.net.
In the corporate world installing a framework just isn't that big of a deal. They have been doing it for decades for things like FoxPro. Even Microsoft Office is an "application framework" for a lot of places. You would be surprised how many companies live and die by super complex Excel spreadsheets. Before that they lived and died by super complex Lotus 123 spreadsheets.
Azureus is probably the most popular Java application a lot of Slashdot folks know about. But then a lot of Slashdot folks have never seen SAP.
I can honestly say that walking someone through a command line over the phone the easier than a gui. Okay click on the icon that looks like a book. Not not that one that looks like a book the one that looks like a book with a squiggle on it not the book that looks like a line on it. I have done both for years.
Linux isn't the most user friendly system on the planet but then Windows is also got it's nasty underbelly as well that is just as nasty.
Trust me the aviation comunity was and is up in arms over it. But the people of Chicago voted him in for another term. Almost as bright as the people of New Orleans re-electing their Mayor.
Oh yea this is going to be expensive. 1. They have no just cause to search the bag since when they did the search they found nothing. 2. The prevented him from leavening without just cause. For the police this is going to cost as well. I see at least seven figures.
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You got it.
Point and click is great for doing things that you have to do rarely. For tasks you have to often the keyboard rules.
Think about typing as an example. If you took a person that didn't know how to type at all then a keyboard on the screen with the letters in alphabetical order would be much faster then teaching them how to type.
A system that has been in use for years has probably evolved in to a very efficent system. The companies are willing to put in the time up front to train people to use them so speed is more important being intuitive.
Think of programs like vi, emacs, and Unix vs Wordpad and Windows.
"Oh, and to the other posts that keep talking about 'attached to the wings'...Um, B-52s don't have anything attached to their wings except engines. The weapons would have been in the internal bay. "
The B-52H has two under wing pylons that can carry many different types of weapons. Last time I checks the ACMs could only be carried externally while the ALCM can be carried internally.
"I thank the Gods it was interpreted and thus included the source code. "
Huhhh? interpreted Cobol? I haven't seen a Cobol interpreter since I worked on a SuperPet back in the dark ages?
BTW the SuperPet was a great system for schools. I had Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, APL, Basic, and an Assembler. What was best of all the where all interpreters with the possible exception of the Assembler.
Yep I blew it. My bad.
I just have not seen much of Flex so I thought it was still in beta.
"Also, there's the fact that everybody already has Flash, so you have to fight the market inertia to get a foothold."
Same problem that Microsoft faces with Silverlight. But then they also faced that mediaplayer "Everybody already had Real", and with MSN messanger, "Everybody already had ICQ or AIM", and with IE, "Everybody already uses Netscape". Of course Microsoft has the ability to push Silverlight out to every windows box.
I understand why GASH exists but it just pains me. With all the problems the FOSS community has had with Flash the lack of interest in developing not a copy but a better system just bugs me.
The FOSS community now has a great collection of codecs available from the Ogg project. Vorbis and FLAC for music, Speex for speech, and Theora for video. They have shown that they can develop some great languages like Python, Ruby, and Lua. So why not a replacement for Flash that is better than Flash?
That is after all exactly what Microsoft is doing.
"This kind of screw up is a career ending move."
That is probably the best outcome. Can you say dereliction of duty? I would bet that people are going to facing jail time for this one. Your right when it comes to special weapons the military really doesn't play around.
I just wonder what poor enlisted guy at Barksdale thought when he found out they still had the warheads. That must have been an oh crap moment. If you don't raise the alarm fast enough your in deep trouble. If you are wrong you are in deep trouble. Is there even a protocal for dealing with that kind of a mistake? Kind of a man I hope I am right but I really wish I am wrong moment.
Yes I was rounding big time but the point is that 16 gigs isn't small.
Will Moonlight be released as GPL missing the codecs of course?
:)
Any chance that moonlight might support formats that Silverlight doesn't like Theora and the rest of Ogg?
If so any chance of it being ported as a plugin for IE?
I like the idea of embracing and extending Microsofts standards for a change
"Put briefly, Adobe Flex is in beta of it's 4th major version, and it's what Adobe is offering for programming targeting the Flash Player. For a programmer, it is worlds better than Flash."
"Silverlight might be awesome, I haven't touched it, but everything you said about it are all the same improvements over Flash that Flex has been doing for years now."
If it is still in beta how has it been doing anything for years????
It is a long beta then and still isn't out?
Microsoft's system as much as I hate to say is now out. Flex is still in beta.
That is probably impossible.
They may use code they bought and can not make FOSS.
Other than that it could work. They would still make money off the authoring software.
I do it now on my cell phone. Even as limited as the browser on my cell it I find it extremely useful.
Last time I looked the iPhone was selling like hotcakes.
Early adoptors always pay too much. I was looking at the new Razor2 which I wanted until I saw the price. It is as expensive as the iPhone! Oh well maybe I will be jumping to AT&T unless sprint offers me a super deal.
16gigs == 16 hours of video.
Seem like a lot to me.
What was expecting was a wifi link between the iPod and the Touch/iPhone.
A way to allow you to use the iPod Classic as mass storage for your Touch/iPhone or if you like a way to use your iPhone/Touch as a display for your iPod Classic.
What I wonder is can I play music and or video stored on an iTunes server over the Touch on my own wifi network?
I doubt it. I think you would have to look long and hard to find any company that hates Microsoft more than Novell.
Novell made a deal to work on the networking of OS/2 with Microsoft. They came out on the short end of the stick there.
Netware has been the real looser to Microsoft's Server push. They also bought Unix but didn't market that well so they sold off the marketing rights to SCO and then with the help of Microsoft that came back and bit them in the rear hard.
I think that any deal you see between Novell and Microsoft will be very carefully looked at by Novell and for the benefit of Novell.
But then why the deal with Microsoft?
Real simple. I think it was Microsoft paying Novell off for not going after them when the whole SCO deal came crashing down. I think Novell took a pile of cash an access to Microsoft Patents in exchange with a promise to not go after them for their involvement in the SCO nightmare.
Just my guess.
Yes I do but I don't want another version of FLASH!
Flash just sucks. It really does. Action Script is a terrible language there are all sorts of issues with flash.
Why doesn't the FOSS community come up with a replacement for Flash and not just a copy?
Make a plug in for IE and get Firefox, Opera, and Safari to include it in their browsers?
Make it FOSS BSD please so the embedded people can use it for their systems.
Use Ogg for the codecs.
And write good authoring tools.
Make it good, open, and free.
I am looking forward to reviews of the new drivers. I need a new Video board and an 1950 would be a nice card for the money.
But they are not supporting the all in wonder boards so that is a big negative for me.
And they are not supporting their older GPUs which is also a negative for me.
So I will have to be in the wait and see mode.
As far as openness? Well I use nVidia now. If I have a choice between two good boards with good drivers I will pick the one that are GPL. Intel isn't an option since I currently have AMD systems and I like them.
If one person pays you to write an FOSS program that program is a winner.
If one person likes the FOSS program they wrote that is a winner.
It is hard to loose with FOSS.
The true spirit of FOSS is that one writes what one needs and lets others use it and make it better.
No they have not been. The emissions for car diesel engines in some of the states has been way higher than those in Europe. The other problem is diesel fuel in the US was allowed to have much higher amounts of sulfur than Europe. The new requirements I think they are called Tier 4 Bin 5 are much stricter and cars that pass that will be okay to sell in all 50 states.
The US has had the most strict emissions and safety requirements for years. That is one reason that many European cars just where not available in the US.
I have to say that it is a good idea. Is there a wireless keyboard for the wii yet? Some of the folks might like to use web based email so a keyboard would be handy.
"it's a bad idea to install a huge framework just for a single program (yeah, Azureus, but that's pretty much the only big one), "
How about Eclipse.org?
Java is very popular in the business world. When it comes to client software the three popular ways to go are Visual Basic, Java, and Web. Frankly Web is a bad fit for a lot of client work. Visual Basic means your stuck with what Microsoft gives you and a lot of people are really cranky over VB.net.
In the corporate world installing a framework just isn't that big of a deal. They have been doing it for decades for things like FoxPro. Even Microsoft Office is an "application framework" for a lot of places. You would be surprised how many companies live and die by super complex Excel spreadsheets. Before that they lived and died by super complex Lotus 123 spreadsheets.
Azureus is probably the most popular Java application a lot of Slashdot folks know about. But then a lot of Slashdot folks have never seen SAP.
I can honestly say that walking someone through a command line over the phone the easier than a gui. Okay click on the icon that looks like a book. Not not that one that looks like a book the one that looks like a book with a squiggle on it not the book that looks like a line on it. I have done both for years.
Linux isn't the most user friendly system on the planet but then Windows is also got it's nasty underbelly as well that is just as nasty.
Trust me the aviation comunity was and is up in arms over it. But the people of Chicago voted him in for another term. Almost as bright as the people of New Orleans re-electing their Mayor.
Oh yea this is going to be expensive.
1. They have no just cause to search the bag since when they did the search they found nothing.
2. The prevented him from leavening without just cause.
For the police this is going to cost as well.
I see at least seven figures.
So what?
Do you think cooperations using tax havens are a good thing or a bad thing?
Great way to dismiss the issue.